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Florence King was an American novelist born on January 5, 1936, and passed away on January 6, 2016. Known for her humor and satirical take on Southern life and culture, her works have left a lasting impact on American literature.

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Famous Florence King Quotes

“I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me, writing a good review is not just a way to make extra money, but a sacred duty.”

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Author:Florence King

“There is nothing wrong with "women's studies" that studying the right women can't cure, but feminist literary scholars have a penchant for dragging the rivers of deserved obscurity for third-rate neurotics.”

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Author:Florence King

“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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Book:Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

“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.”

Source: Lump It Or Leave It

“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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Book:Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

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

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Book:Lump It Or Leave It

Source: Lump It Or Leave It

“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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Book:Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

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

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Book:Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

“True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.”

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Author:Florence King

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

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Author:Florence King

About the Author

Born: January 5, 1936
Died: January 6, 2016
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 119

Books & Sources

Reflections In A Jaundiced EyeRelated source material

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Confessions of a Failed Southern LadyRelated source material

Southern Ladies & GentlemenRelated source material

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He: An Irreverent Look at the American MaleRelated source material

STET, Damnit! The Misanthrope's Corner, 1991 to 2002Related source material

When sisterhood was in flowerRelated source material

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