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Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.

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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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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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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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I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all times as if she had just read one of my books.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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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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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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If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things.
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It takes only one child to raze a village.
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to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
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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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Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
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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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We worship education but hate learning.
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Each time a mediocre singer performs, he is saying, in effect, This is good enough for you. The audience, thrust into that familiar American mood of knowing something is wrong but not knowing what it is, unconsciously absorbs the insult and projects it back onto the mediocre performer in the form of inattention, rudeness and noise.
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Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
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Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.
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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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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
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