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Familiarity breeds democracry.

Florence King

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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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Familiarity

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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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To me, elitism means a love of excellence and superiority, but America has declared war on both and developed a sick love of the lowest common denominator to make sure no-one becomes too fine for our touted democracy. We are almost at the point of regarding every virtue as elitist.
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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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If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street
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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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Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.
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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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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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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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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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