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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
World
Faux
Southerner
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Familiarity breeds democracry.
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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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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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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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America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.
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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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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
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Learn to spot and avoid writer groupies. The writer's self-sufficiency and our love for our work tend to attract insecure people who never can get enough love. They grow jealous of our work and come to regard it as a rival. These people can destroy you, so kick them out of your life or don't admit them in the first place.
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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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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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During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.
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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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A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.
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Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.
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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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There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum.
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