Florence King Quotes

Florence King

Profession : Writer

Birth : January 5, 1936

Aging does not make women powerless objects of pity but colorful and entertaining individuals and, on occasion, fire-breathing dragons that wise people don't cross.

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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.

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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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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

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In baseball, you can't tell the players without a scorecard, but in political commentary, you need a metaphor.

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Christopher Hitchens and I were not friends or even acquaintances. We never met or spoke on the phone, just exchanged occasional brief letters - notes, really - hand-written and snail-mailed at first, e-mailed later.

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Until feminists started wailing about the female's passivity, submissiveness, and something called 'victim status,' I had no idea women were such doormats. My childhood was populated by Eleanor Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart, Pearl Buck, Marie Curie, Clare Boothe Luce, and the Duchess of Windsor.

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They don't call him 'No Drama Obama' for nothing. He's even worse than we thought because he has committed the ultimate American crime, worse than anything he has been accused of so far: He has no sense of humor.

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Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.

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A man should never apologize!

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

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

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

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

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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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To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other.

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Whenever people are confronted by a prediction for the future that they simply cannot or will not believe, they always say, 'It will never happen in my lifetime.' If the prediction is something they deplore and fear, they say it with calculated bravado, often adding a smug, snorty hhrrummph.

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