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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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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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Imperial
Lady
China
South
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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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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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Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.
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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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Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
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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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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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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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If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.
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to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
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