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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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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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Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.
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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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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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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
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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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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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It takes only one child to raze a village.
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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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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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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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Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.
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Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?
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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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Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.
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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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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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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 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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Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.
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