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
punishment misanthrope mets
If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.
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.
equality government america
By sending the contradictory message that the famous are just plain folks on Mount Olympus, America has forged a relentless tension between loftiness and accessibility. Stir in the fact that the inborn talent and intelligence needed to achieve fame are immune to distributive tinkering by government programs and you have a definition of fame certain to produce envious rage: somebody screwed democracy.
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.
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.
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.