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Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.

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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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There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum.
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There's something unrefined about a reading woman, they always reek of the lamp. How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book? Granny Rudin
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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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We worship education but hate learning.
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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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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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No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street
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I don't mind being regarded as perverted and unnatural, but I would die if people thought I was a Democrat.
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The Apologizer Bunny keeps going and going and going.
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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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Randian heroes come off as metaphors for Jews because they are beset by irrational forces that try to bar them from the professions and use their virtues against them to bring about their destruction.
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I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all times as if she had just read one of my books.
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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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to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
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A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.
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It takes only one child to raze a village.
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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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If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things.
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If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.
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