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The copyeditor I drew was a brachycephalic, web-footed cretin who should have been in an institution learning how to make brooms.
Florence King
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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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Familiarity breeds democracry.
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Randian heroes come off as metaphors for Jews because they are beset by irrational forces that try to bar them from the professions and use their virtues against them to bring about their destruction.
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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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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
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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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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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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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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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Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
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Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.
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To me, elitism means a love of excellence and superiority, but America has declared war on both and developed a sick love of the lowest common denominator to make sure no-one becomes too fine for our touted democracy. We are almost at the point of regarding every virtue as elitist.
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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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to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
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No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street
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The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmoth.
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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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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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It takes only one child to raze a village.
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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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