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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
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Washington
District of Columbia
Florence Virginia King
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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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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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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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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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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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If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.
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Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.
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Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
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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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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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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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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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During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.
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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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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
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