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The Apologizer Bunny keeps going and going and going.
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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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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to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
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Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.
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Nothing is more likely to start me screaming like a madwoman than New York in February with its piles of blackened snow full of yellow holes drilled by dogs.
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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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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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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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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
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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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Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.
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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.
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To me, elitism means a love of excellence and superiority, but America has declared war on both and developed a sick love of the lowest common denominator to make sure no-one becomes too fine for our touted democracy. We are almost at the point of regarding every virtue as elitist.
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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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America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.
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Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
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Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?
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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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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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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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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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