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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
Writing
Always

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We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.
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The copyeditor I drew was a brachycephalic, web-footed cretin who should have been in an institution learning how to make brooms.
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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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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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Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap.
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Learn to spot and avoid writer groupies. The writer's self-sufficiency and our love for our work tend to attract insecure people who never can get enough love. They grow jealous of our work and come to regard it as a rival. These people can destroy you, so kick them out of your life or don't admit them in the first place.
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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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Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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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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Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.
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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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If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.
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Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
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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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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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Familiarity breeds democracry.
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There's something unrefined about a reading woman, they always reek of the lamp. How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book? Granny Rudin
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Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.
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No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street
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