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We worship education but hate learning.
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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Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
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My object is to live in a place that does not call itself 'the community with a heart.' I want one of those godforsaken towns where all the young people leave and the rest sit on the porch with a rifle across their knees.
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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 you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.
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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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Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.
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Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.
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There is nothing wrong with women's studies that studying the right women can't cure, but feminist literary scholars have a penchant for dragging the rivers of deserved obscurity for third-rate neurotics.
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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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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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There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum.
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No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street
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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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Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.
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A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.
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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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Familiarity breeds democracry.
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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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Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.
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