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Florence King

"Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it."

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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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"Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it."

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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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"In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order."

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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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"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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"He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood."

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"Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in."

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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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"Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind."

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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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