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If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things.
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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Whisky
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to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
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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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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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No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street
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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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America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.
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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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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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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
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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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I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady.
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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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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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In other countries, congenital introverts simply remain introverts all their lives, neither advancing nor retreating, but America's commitment to extroversion as a national art form can abrade some naturally aloof personalities until they flower into deadly nightshade.
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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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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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