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to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
Florence King
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Florence King
Age: 80 †
Born: 1936
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: January 6
Essayist
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Washington
District of Columbia
Florence Virginia King
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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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Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
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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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If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.
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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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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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America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.
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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 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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Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.
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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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If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things.
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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.
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Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.
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No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street
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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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Very is the most useless word in the English language and can always come out. More than useless, it is treacherous because it invariably weakens what it is intended to strengthen. For example, would you rather hear the mincing shallowness of I love you very much or the heart-slamming intensity of I love you?
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There's something unrefined about a reading woman, they always reek of the lamp. How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book? Granny Rudin
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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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