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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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Florence King
Age: 80 †
Born: 1936
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: January 6
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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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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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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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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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Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.
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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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Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.
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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
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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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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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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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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 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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Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.
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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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