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to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.

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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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Southerner
Sins
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World

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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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because the theater lost a Barrymore every time a Southerner decided not to go on the stage, just about anything that comes out of a Southern mouth is bound to be a ringing line.
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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 copyeditor I drew was a brachycephalic, web-footed cretin who should have been in an institution learning how to make brooms.
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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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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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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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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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There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum.
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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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Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football instead of building character, it tears it down.
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Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
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No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street
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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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Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?
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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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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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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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