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Florence King
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Florence King
Age: 80 †
Born: 1936
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: January 6
Essayist
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District of Columbia
Florence Virginia King
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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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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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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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Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.
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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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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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It's the Government's job to print the money, deliver the mail and declare war. Now give me my cigarettes.
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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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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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The Apologizer Bunny keeps going and going and going.
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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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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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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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Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
Florence King
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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We worship education but hate learning.
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to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
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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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If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things.
Florence King
Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.
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