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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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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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Democrat
Dies

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to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
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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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In other countries, congenital introverts simply remain introverts all their lives, neither advancing nor retreating, but America's commitment to extroversion as a national art form can abrade some naturally aloof personalities until they flower into deadly nightshade.
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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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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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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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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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