Quotes by Florence King

About Florence King:

Florence Virginia King is an American novelist, essayist and columnist.
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In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment.

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No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street

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If any of us had heard the word "feminist" we would have thought it meant a girl who wore too much makeup, but we were, without knowing it, feminists ourselves, bound together by the freemasonry that exists among intelligent women who know they are i...

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In the South, Sunday morning sex is accompanied by church bells.

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Writers make everybody nervous but we terrify Silly Service workers. Our apartments always look like a front for something, and no matter how carefully we tidy up for guests we always seem to miss the note card that says, "Margaret has to die soon." ...

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

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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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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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Children have no business expressing opinions on anything except "Do you have enough room in the toes?

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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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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.

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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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True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

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

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[John Edwards] is the man that Rielle Hunter called 'real and authentic,' which tells us all we need to know about her mental abilities. This is why she can't figure out why he picked her. He could have had a multitude of sweet young things but he ch...

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A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am once again what I was before the age of twelve: a female human being who knows that a month has thirty day, n...

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameFlorence King
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornJanuary 5, 1936
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Novelist