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America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.
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
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Florence Virginia King
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Randian heroes come off as metaphors for Jews because they are beset by irrational forces that try to bar them from the professions and use their virtues against them to bring about their destruction.
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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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A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.
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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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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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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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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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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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Familiarity breeds democracry.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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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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If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.
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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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Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.
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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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Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.
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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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