Florence King
Florence King
Florence Virginia Kingwas an American novelist, essayist and columnist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth5 January 1936
CountryUnited States of America
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Golf is tiddlywinks played while standing up and and wearing a hat
hate people i-hate-people
Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?
hate worship
We worship education but hate learning.
hate people insecurity
Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.
hate learning successful
We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.
gun people hatred
I simply like guns because you can't shoot people without them.
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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.
human mind time
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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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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Lacking ladylike poison, Lizzie (Borden) did what every over-civilized, understated Wasp is entirely capable of doing once we finally admit we're mad as hell and aren't going to take it any more: She went from Anglo to Saxon in a trice
country home america
America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.
race sight years
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.
country art flower
In other countries, congenital introverts simply remain introverts all their lives, neither advancing nor retreating, but America's commitment to extroversion as a national art form can abrade some naturally aloof personalities until they flower into deadly nightshade.
animal humanness-is steel
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.