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Florence King
American
Writer
About the author
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.
Florence King,
American
Writer
#Right
#People
#American
#Living
#Age
#Dream
#Error
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
Florence King,
American
Writer
#Order
#Etiquette
I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
Florence King,
American
Writer
#Home
He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
Florence King,
American
Writer
#Feminism
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
Florence King,
American
Writer
#God
#Americans
#Beauty
#Creativity
#Worship
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,
American
Writer
#American
#Marriage
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,
American
Writer
#People
#Being
#School
#Jobs
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,
American
Writer
#Now
#First
#Sex
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
Florence King,
American
Writer
#Nothing
#Writers
#Metaphors
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
Florence King,
American
Writer
#Memories
#Nostalgia
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
Florence King,
American
Writer
#Time
#World
#American
#Mind
#Meaning
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,
American
Writer
#Life
#American
#Woman
#Women
#Wit
#Lovers
#Witty