Florence King
Florence King
Florence Virginia Kingwas an American novelist, essayist and columnist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth5 January 1936
CountryUnited States of America
Florence King quotes about
should-have brooms institutions
The copyeditor I drew was a brachycephalic, web-footed cretin who should have been in an institution learning how to make brooms.
southern goes-on mouths
because the theater lost a Barrymore every time a Southerner decided not to go on the stage, just about anything that comes out of a Southern mouth is bound to be a ringing line.
couple law literature
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.
pride genius psychological
Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.
democracy leafs figs
Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
bunnies keep-going
The Apologizer Bunny keeps going and going and going.
familiarity
Familiarity breeds democracry.
nice neurosis way
The nice thing about Southerners is the way we enjoy our neuroses.
sick dating crippled
Keep dating and you will become so sick, so badly crippled, so deformed, so emotionally warped and mentally defective that you will marry anybody.
morning sex cigarette-smoke
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.
contempt familiarity
Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
suffering fool
I don't suffer fools, and I like to see fools suffer.
nice government differences
We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy grin, the same innocent intentions, the same naive trust; a president with no conception of foreign policy and no discernible connection to the U.S. government, whose Nice Guyism will narrow the gap between the U.S. and us until nobody can tell the difference.
egalitarianism america democracy
Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.