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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
Florence King
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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
Writing
Always
Metaphors
Strain
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Writers
Nothing
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Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?
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Nothing is more likely to start me screaming like a madwoman than New York in February with its piles of blackened snow full of yellow holes drilled by dogs.
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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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Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.
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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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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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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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Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.
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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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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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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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Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. 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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Very is the most useless word in the English language and can always come out. More than useless, it is treacherous because it invariably weakens what it is intended to strengthen. For example, would you rather hear the mincing shallowness of I love you very much or the heart-slamming intensity of I love you?
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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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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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Familiarity breeds democracry.
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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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We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.
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It takes only one child to raze a village.
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