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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.
Florence King
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Florence King
Age: 80 †
Born: 1936
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: January 6
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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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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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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.
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Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?
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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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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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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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Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
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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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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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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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No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street
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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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There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum.
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to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
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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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