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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

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Florence King
Age: 80 †
Born: 1936
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: January 6
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Washington
District of Columbia
Florence Virginia King
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Strain
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Writers
Nothing
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Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.
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When women talk about privacy they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about a room of one'sown refer to psychological space, rarely to physical solitude. For most women being alone is tantamount to being deserted.
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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
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In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For preppies it's a smoke signal that allows Bunny to tell Pooky that they belong to the same tribe, while among the good old boys it serves the cause of masculine dominance by identifying Bear and Wrecker as Alpha males.
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I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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To me, elitism means a love of excellence and superiority, but America has declared war on both and developed a sick love of the lowest common denominator to make sure no-one becomes too fine for our touted democracy. We are almost at the point of regarding every virtue as elitist.
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Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?
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Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football instead of building character, it tears it down.
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If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.
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Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.
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There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum.
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In other countries, congenital introverts simply remain introverts all their lives, neither advancing nor retreating, but America's commitment to extroversion as a national art form can abrade some naturally aloof personalities until they flower into deadly nightshade.
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Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.
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The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmoth.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Randian heroes come off as metaphors for Jews because they are beset by irrational forces that try to bar them from the professions and use their virtues against them to bring about their destruction.
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I don't mind being regarded as perverted and unnatural, but I would die if people thought I was a Democrat.
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During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.
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We worship education but hate learning.
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