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Florence King Quotes

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories Picture Quote #1

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in Picture Quote #1

Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate? Picture Quote #1

We worship education but hate learning Picture Quote #1

Familiarity doesn’t breed contempt, it is contempt Picture Quote #1

Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely Picture Quote #1

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A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt Picture Quote #1

Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush Picture Quote #1

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways Picture Quote #1

Keep dating and you will become so sick, so badly crippled, so deformed, so emotionally warped and mentally defective that you will marry anybody Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials Picture Quote #1

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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood Picture Quote #1

There’s no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order Picture Quote #1

Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well Picture Quote #1

We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous Picture Quote #1

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I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all times as if she had just read one of my books Picture Quote #1

A cardinal rule of writing is never interrupt yourself to explain something. If you must bring up an obscure topic, drop informative hints about it as you go along so that you don’t end up with the entire explanation all in one place. This keeps you from skidding to a stop and sounding teacherish. Otherwise it’s better to omit the obscure topic altogether, or as mothers might put it: if you can’t say it interestingly, don’t say it at all Picture Quote #1

Resistance to team play seemed to pour like wet cement through my bones, displacing supple marrow, until I was ballasted with my own contempt Picture Quote #1

We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Men are not very good at loving, but they are experts at admiring and respecting; the woman who goes after their admiration and respect will often come out better than she who goes out after their love Picture Quote #1

There is more sexism in a year’s worth of movies than actually exists in a woman’s entire lifetime Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories (Florence King Quotes) Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in (Florence King Quotes) Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate? (Florence King Quotes) We worship education but hate learning (Florence King Quotes) Familiarity doesn’t breed contempt, it is contempt (Florence King Quotes) Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely (Florence King Quotes) A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt (Florence King Quotes) Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush (Florence King Quotes) The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways (Florence King Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Florence King Quotes) Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials (Florence King Quotes) He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood (Florence King Quotes) There’s no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum (Florence King Quotes) 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 (Florence King Quotes) In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order (Florence King Quotes) Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well (Florence King Quotes) We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous (Florence King Quotes) I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all times as if she had just read one of my books (Florence King Quotes) A cardinal rule of writing is never interrupt yourself to explain something. If you must bring up an obscure topic, drop informative hints about it as you go along so that you don’t end up with the entire explanation all in one place. This keeps you from skidding to a stop and sounding teacherish. Otherwise it’s better to omit the obscure topic altogether, or as mothers might put it: if you can’t say it interestingly, don’t say it at all (Florence King Quotes) Resistance to team play seemed to pour like wet cement through my bones, displacing supple marrow, until I was ballasted with my own contempt (Florence King Quotes) We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories (Florence King Quotes) 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 (Florence King Quotes) 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 (Florence King Quotes) I’d rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home (Florence King Quotes) Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it (Florence King Quotes) 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 (Florence King Quotes) Men are not very good at loving, but they are experts at admiring and respecting; the woman who goes after their admiration and respect will often come out better than she who goes out after their love (Florence King Quotes) There is more sexism in a year’s worth of movies than actually exists in a woman’s entire lifetime (Florence King Quotes) 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 (Florence King Quotes)

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