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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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to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
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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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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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Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
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We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.
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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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Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.
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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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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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Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
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