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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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Brooms
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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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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all times as if she had just read one of my books.
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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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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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Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
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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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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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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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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
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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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A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.
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to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
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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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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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We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.
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Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap.
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No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street
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Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.
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