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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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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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America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.
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to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
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Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?
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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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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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The Apologizer Bunny keeps going and going and going.
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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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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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Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
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In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For preppies it's a smoke signal that allows Bunny to tell Pooky that they belong to the same tribe, while among the good old boys it serves the cause of masculine dominance by identifying Bear and Wrecker as Alpha males.
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Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
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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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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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We worship education but hate learning.
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A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.
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It takes only one child to raze a village.
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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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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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