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Florence King
American writer
Florence Virginia Kingwas an American novelist, essayist and columnist.
While her early writings focused on the American South and those who live there, much of King’s later work was published in National Review.
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Florence Virginia Kingwas an American novelist, essayist and columnist.
While her early writings focused on the American South and those who live there, much of King’s later work was published in National Review. Until her retirement in 2002, her column in National Review, “The Misanthrope’s Corner”, was known for “serving up a smorgasbord of curmudgeonly critiques about rubes and all else bothersome to the Queen of Mean”, as the magazine put it. After leaving retirement in 2006, she began writing a new column for National Review titled “The Bent Pin.”
King was a traditionalist conservative, but not a “movement conservative,” and she objected to much of the populist direction of the contemporary American Right. She was an active Episcopalian (though she often referred to her agnosticism), a member of Phi Alpha Theta, and a monarchist.
12 Quotes by Florence King
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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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.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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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.
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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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Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty – as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
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