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“Resistance to team play seemed to pour like wet cement through my bones, displacing supple marrow, until I was ballasted with my own contempt.”

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Florence King

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. more

“Recently while browsing in a secondhand bookstore I bought a paperback copy of The Intellectual and the City, but I was unable to read it. When I got home I discovered that the original owner had highlighted the entire book - literally. Every line on every page had been drawn through with a bright green Magic Marker. It was a terrifying example of a mind that had lost all power of discrimination.”

Mind Book Home Lost Lines Cities Magic Example Pages Intellectual Originals Green Discrimination Owners Copies Bookstores Markers Browsing

Book:Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

“Nothing is more likely to start me screaming like a madwoman than New York in February with its piles of blackened snow full of yellow holes drilled by dogs.”

Dog New York Holes Snow Yellow February

Book:Southern ladies and gentlemen

Source: Southern ladies and gentlemen

“Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor with one's oppressor.”

People Way Mean Reason Simple Survival Favors Oppression Oppressed Oppressors Treachery Treacherous Curry

Book:Southern Ladies & Gentlemen

Source: Southern Ladies & Gentlemen

“I don't mind being regarded as perverted and unnatural, but I would die if people thought I was a Democrat.”

People Ifs Mind Political Dies Party Democrat Political Parties Unnatural

Book:Lump It Or Leave It

Source: Lump It Or Leave It

“Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.”

People Ifs Wells Kind Hate Prejudice Insecurity Hate You Treachery

Author:Florence King

“And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.”

People Knows Hockey Know Me

Author:Wayne Gretzky

“In the last few years, race relations in America have entered upon a period of intensified craziness wherein fear of being called a racist has so thoroughly overwhelmed fear of being a racist that we are in danger of losing sight of the distinction.”

Years Lasts America Race Danger Periods Losing Racism Sight Relation Distinction Racist Overwhelmed Race Relations Craziness

Author:Florence King

“My object is to live in a place that does not call itself 'the community with a heart.' I want one of those godforsaken towns where all the young people leave and the rest sit on the porch with a rifle across their knees.”

People Want Heart Doe Young Community Objects Towns Knees Rifles Porch Sociability

Author:Florence King

“If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.”

Ifs Mets Punishment Solitary Confinement Sociability Misanthrope Solitary Confinement

Author:Florence King

“If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.”

Ifs Looks Persons Doe Suffering Fool Likes Sociability Misanthrope

Author:Florence King

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