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It takes only one child to raze a village.
Florence King
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Florence King
Age: 80 †
Born: 1936
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: January 6
Essayist
Journalist
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Washington
District of Columbia
Florence Virginia King
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More quotes by Florence King
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.
Florence King
Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?
Florence King
If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.
Florence King
There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum.
Florence King
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
Florence King
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.
Florence King
America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.
Florence King
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.
Florence King
Each time a mediocre singer performs, he is saying, in effect, This is good enough for you. The audience, thrust into that familiar American mood of knowing something is wrong but not knowing what it is, unconsciously absorbs the insult and projects it back onto the mediocre performer in the form of inattention, rudeness and noise.
Florence King
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.
Florence King
Familiarity breeds democracry.
Florence King
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.
Florence King
We worship education but hate learning.
Florence King
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.
Florence King
No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street
Florence King
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.
Florence King
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.
Florence King
Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.
Florence King
to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
Florence King
Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football instead of building character, it tears it down.
Florence King