Florence King
Florence King
Florence Virginia Kingwas an American novelist, essayist and columnist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth5 January 1936
CountryUnited States of America
golf hat played standing wearing
Golf is tiddlywinks played while standing up and and wearing a hat
kings children kids
America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, the child is automatically more of an American than his parents. Americans regard children as what Mr. Hudson in Upstairs, Downstairs called betters. Aping their betters, American adults do their best to turn themselves into children. Puerility exercises droit de seigneur everywhere.
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.
democracy leafs figs
Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
familiarity
Familiarity breeds democracry.
nice neurosis way
The nice thing about Southerners is the way we enjoy our neuroses.
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.
human mind time
Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.