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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
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Whisky
Salt
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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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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
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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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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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Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
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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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to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
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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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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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We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.
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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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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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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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Let's bring back grandmothers! A real family consists of three generations. It's time Americans stopped worrying about interference and being a burden on the children and regrouped under one roof.
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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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There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum.
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Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.
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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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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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Familiarity breeds democracry.
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