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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
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Washington
District of Columbia
Florence Virginia King
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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
Florence King
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.
Florence King
My object is to live in a place that does not call itself 'the community with a heart.' I want one of those godforsaken towns where all the young people leave and the rest sit on the porch with a rifle across their knees.
Florence King
Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.
Florence King
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.
Florence King
Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football instead of building character, it tears it down.
Florence King
The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmoth.
Florence King
We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.
Florence King
America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.
Florence King
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.
Florence King
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
to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
Florence King
The copyeditor I drew was a brachycephalic, web-footed cretin who should have been in an institution learning how to make brooms.
Florence King
I don't mind being regarded as perverted and unnatural, but I would die if people thought I was a Democrat.
Florence King
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
Florence King
There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum.
Florence King
We worship education but hate learning.
Florence King
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.
Florence King
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
Florence King
Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
Florence King