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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
Nothing
Writing
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Metaphors
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Writers

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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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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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because the theater lost a Barrymore every time a Southerner decided not to go on the stage, just about anything that comes out of a Southern mouth is bound to be a ringing line.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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Let's bring back grandmothers! A real family consists of three generations. It's time Americans stopped worrying about interference and being a burden on the children and regrouped under one roof.
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If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things.
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America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.
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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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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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No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street
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For men who want to flee Family Man America and never come back, there is a guaranteed solution: homosexuality is the new French Foreign Legion.
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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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Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.
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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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If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.
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Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.
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Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.
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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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