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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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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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Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.
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to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
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Each time a mediocre singer performs, he is saying, in effect, This is good enough for you. The audience, thrust into that familiar American mood of knowing something is wrong but not knowing what it is, unconsciously absorbs the insult and projects it back onto the mediocre performer in the form of inattention, rudeness and noise.
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A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.
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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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We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.
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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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Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
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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 takes only one child to raze a village.
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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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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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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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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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Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.
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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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We worship education but hate learning.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
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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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