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Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.
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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Washington
District of Columbia
Florence Virginia King
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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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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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A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.
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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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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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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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If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things.
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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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Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
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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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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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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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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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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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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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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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Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.
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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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