Florence King Short Quotes

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

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Agoraphobia was my quirky armor against a gregarious America.

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

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

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

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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she.

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

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

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Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.

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

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If we had the right kind of laws in this country, I'd challenge her to a duel.

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

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

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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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Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

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

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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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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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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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In order to molest a child you must first be in the same room with a child, and I don't know how perverts stand it.

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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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Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time.

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

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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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The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother.

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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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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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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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