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We worship education but hate learning.

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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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Learning
Education
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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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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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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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to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
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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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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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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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If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things.
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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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Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.
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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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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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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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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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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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Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
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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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America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.
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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 doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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