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Florence King quotes: The nice thing about Southerners is the way we enjoy our neuroses.

The nice thing about Southerners is the way we enjoy our neuroses.

Florence King quotes: True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

Florence King quotes: For a girl gone wrong, you can't beat the banks of the Wabash.

For a girl gone wrong, you can't beat the banks of the Wabash.

Florence King quotes: We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.

We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.

Florence King quotes: Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.

Florence King quotes: Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush.

Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush.

Florence King quotes: Build a fence around the South and you'd have one big madhouse.

Build a fence around the South and you'd have one big madhouse.

Florence King quotes: Agoraphobia was my quirky armor against a gregarious America ...

Agoraphobia was my quirky armor against a gregarious America ...

Florence King quotes: Episcopalians have always preferred the flying buttress to the pillar of the church.

Episcopalians have always preferred the flying buttress to the pillar of the church.

Florence King quotes: Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.

Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.

Florence King quotes: I simply like guns because you can't shoot people without them.

I simply like guns because you can't shoot people without them.

Florence King quotes: Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.

Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.

Florence King quotes: Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

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 quotes: Keep dating and you will become so sick, so badly crippled, so deformed, so emotionally warped and mentally defective that you will marry anybody.

Keep dating and you will become so sick, so badly crippled, so deformed, so emotionally warped and mentally defective that you will marry anybody.

Florence King quotes: To a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.

To a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.

Florence King quotes: He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

Florence King quotes: 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.

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 quotes: There is more sexism in a year's worth of movies than actually exists in a woman's entire lifetime.

There is more sexism in a year's worth of movies than actually exists in a woman's entire lifetime.

Florence King quotes: The Apologizer Bunny keeps going and going and going.

The Apologizer Bunny keeps going and going and going.

Florence King quotes: Nothing is more frustrating than sitting in an office amid typewriters and mimeographers when you know what deus ex machina means.

Nothing is more frustrating than sitting in an office amid typewriters and mimeographers when you know what deus ex machina means.

Florence King quotes: Resistance to team play seemed to pour like wet cement through my bones, displacing supple marrow, until I was ballasted with my own contempt.

Resistance to team play seemed to pour like wet cement through my bones, displacing supple marrow, until I was ballasted with my own contempt.

Florence King quotes: Even my different drummer heard a different drummer

Even my different drummer heard a different drummer

Florence King quotes: Kings and queens might do wicked things, but they don't nag. One thing I like about Bloody Mary: she never said a word about lung cancer.

Kings and queens might do wicked things, but they don't nag. One thing I like about Bloody Mary: she never said a word about lung cancer.

Florence King quotes: For men who want to flee Family Man America and never come back, there is a guaranteed solution: homosexuality is the new French Foreign Legion.

For men who want to flee Family Man America and never come back, there is a guaranteed solution: homosexuality is the new French Foreign Legion.

Florence King quotes: Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?

Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?

Florence King quotes: How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book?

How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book?

Florence King quotes: Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.

Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.

Florence King quotes: No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street

No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street

Florence King quotes: Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.

Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.

Florence King quotes: It's the Government's job to print the money, deliver the mail and declare war. Now give me my cigarettes.

It's the Government's job to print the money, deliver the mail and declare war. Now give me my cigarettes.

Florence King quotes: In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

Florence King quotes: Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.

Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.

Florence King quotes: Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors.

Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors.

Florence King quotes: Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

Florence King quotes: Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

Florence King quotes: Children have no business expressing opinions on anything except Do you have enough room in the toes?

Children have no business expressing opinions on anything except Do you have enough room in the toes?

Florence King quotes: God may have loved the common people, but a trip to any shopping mall suggests that He made far too many of them.

God may have loved the common people, but a trip to any shopping mall suggests that He made far too many of them.

Florence King quotes: Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

Florence King quotes: In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment.

In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment.

Florence King quotes: There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum.

There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum.

Florence King quotes: Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.

Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.

Florence King quotes: In the South, Sunday morning sex is accompanied by church bells.

In the South, Sunday morning sex is accompanied by church bells.

Florence King quotes: Hell hath no fury like a liberal arts major scorned.

Hell hath no fury like a liberal arts major scorned.

Florence King quotes: A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.

A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.

Florence King quotes: Americans are so emotionally fragile that soon we will have to be carried around in plastic bubbles and fed with an eye-dropper.

Americans are so emotionally fragile that soon we will have to be carried around in plastic bubbles and fed with an eye-dropper.

Florence King quotes: I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady.

I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady.

Florence King quotes: Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

Florence King quotes: Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.

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

Florence King quotes: Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.

Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.

Florence King quotes: I don't mind being regarded as perverted and unnatural, but I would die if people thought I was a Democrat.

I don't mind being regarded as perverted and unnatural, but I would die if people thought I was a Democrat.

Florence King quotes: If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

Florence King quotes: It takes only one child to raze a village.

It takes only one child to raze a village.

Florence King quotes: Real feminism is spinsterhood.

Real feminism is spinsterhood.

Florence King quotes: I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.

I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.

Florence King quotes: I don't suffer fools, and I like to see fools suffer.

I don't suffer fools, and I like to see fools suffer.

Florence King quotes: The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

Florence King quotes: American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.

American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.

Florence King quotes: The copyeditor I drew was a brachycephalic, web-footed cretin who should have been in an institution learning how to make brooms.

The copyeditor I drew was a brachycephalic, web-footed cretin who should have been in an institution learning how to make brooms.

Florence King quotes: Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor with one's oppressor.

Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor with one's oppressor.

Florence King quotes: If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things.

If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things.

Florence King quotes: I do believe in reincarnation, but I do not believe there is life before noon.

I do believe in reincarnation, but I do not believe there is life before noon.