Florence King Quotes

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

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In the last few years, race relations in America have entered upon a period of intensified craziness wherein fear of being called a racist has so thoroughly overwhelmed fear of being a racist that we are in danger of losing sight of the distinction.

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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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We exchanged wary stares: two people in search of a wavelength.

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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.

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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

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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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I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides.

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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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