Florence King quotes

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. (Florence King)
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. View quote
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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. View quote
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True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. View quote
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order. View quote
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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. View quote
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Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him. View quote
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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. View quote
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The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of a woman of twenty no matter how much she might lust for her. View quote
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There is much to be said for post-menopausal celibacy. Sex is rough on loners because you have to have somebody else around, but now I don't. No more diets to stay slim and desirable: I've had sex and I've had food, and I'd rather eat. View quote
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood. (Florence King)
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it. View quote
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. View quote
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I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn't known that before; I thought I was just short. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways. View quote
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Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer... its anti-intellectualism... its puerile hymns... and its faith-healing... are made to order for King Kid America. View quote
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I'm for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should be tamped down whenever possible. View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. View quote
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There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum. View quote
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I don't suffer fools, and I like to see fools suffer. View quote
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Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely. View quote
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