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For a girl gone wrong, you can't beat the banks of the Wabash.
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We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.
— Florence King
Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.
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Build a fence around the South and you'd have one big madhouse.
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Agoraphobia was my quirky armor against a gregarious America ...
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Episcopalians have always preferred the flying buttress to the pillar of the church.
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Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
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I simply like guns because you can't shoot people without them.
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Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.
— 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.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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There is more sexism in a year's worth of movies than actually exists in a woman's entire lifetime.
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The Apologizer Bunny keeps going and going and going.
— Florence King
Nothing is more frustrating than sitting in an office amid typewriters and mimeographers when you know what deus ex machina means.
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Resistance to team play seemed to pour like wet cement through my bones, displacing supple marrow, until I was ballasted with my own contempt.
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Even my different drummer heard a different drummer
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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.
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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.
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Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?
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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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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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Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.
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Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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Children have no business expressing opinions on anything except Do you have enough room in the toes?
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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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God may have loved the common people, but a trip to any shopping mall suggests that He made far too many of them.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment.
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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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In the South, Sunday morning sex is accompanied by church bells.
— Florence King
Hell hath no fury like a liberal arts major scorned.
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A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.
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Americans are so emotionally fragile that soon we will have to be carried around in plastic bubbles and fed with an eye-dropper.
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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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Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
— Florence King
Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.
— Florence King
Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.
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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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If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.
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It takes only one child to raze a village.
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Real feminism is spinsterhood.
— Florence King
I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
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I don't suffer fools, and I like to see fools suffer.
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Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
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The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.
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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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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.
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