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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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Florence King
Age: 80 †
Born: 1936
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: January 6
Essayist
Journalist
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Washington
District of Columbia
Florence Virginia King
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We worship education but hate learning.
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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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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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Nothing is more likely to start me screaming like a madwoman than New York in February with its piles of blackened snow full of yellow holes drilled by dogs.
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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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The Apologizer Bunny keeps going and going and going.
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Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.
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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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Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum.
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Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.
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