Florence King
Florence King
Florence Virginia Kingwas an American novelist, essayist and columnist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth5 January 1936
CountryUnited States of America
hate people i-hate-people
Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?
mean simple people
Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor with one's oppressor.
party people political
I don't mind being regarded as perverted and unnatural, but I would die if people thought I was a Democrat.
hate people insecurity
Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.
people achievement tools
Americans respect talent only insofar as it leads to fame, and we reserve our most fervent admiration for famous people who destroy their lives as well as their talent. The fatal flaws of Elvis, Judy, and Marilyn register much higher on our national applause meter than their living achievements. In Amerca, talent is merely a tool for becoming famous in life so you can become more famous in death - where all are equal.
gun people hatred
I simply like guns because you can't shoot people without them.
heart people community
My object is to live in a place that does not call itself 'the community with a heart.' I want one of those godforsaken towns where all the young people leave and the rest sit on the porch with a rifle across their knees.
shopping people may
God may have loved the common people, but a trip to any shopping mall suggests that He made far too many of them.
exercise golf people
Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.
entirely fits french good pinnacle plays tailored uniquely wrote
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.
american-writer bingo bunch floor nursing players rot
I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
admit capable entirely finally hell lacking ladylike mad wasp
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
golf hat played standing wearing
Golf is tiddlywinks played while standing up and and wearing a hat