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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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Florence King
Age: 80 †
Born: 1936
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: January 6
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Washington
District of Columbia
Florence Virginia King
Whisky
Salt
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Hell
Important
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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.
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The copyeditor I drew was a brachycephalic, web-footed cretin who should have been in an institution learning how to make brooms.
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Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.
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Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?
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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.
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We worship education but hate learning.
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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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Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
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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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Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.
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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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No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street
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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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Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
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to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
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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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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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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.
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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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