Quotes by Florence King

Florence King

Florence King

American Author, Critic

Lived from: 1936 - 2016

Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 5 january 1936 Died: 6 january 2016

  • The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
  • Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
  • 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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  • 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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  • Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
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  • Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
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  • During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.
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  • 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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  • Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.
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  • 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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  • The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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  • Those colorful denizens of male despair, the Bowery bum and the rail-riding hobo, have been replaced by the bag lady and the welfare mother. Women have even taken over Skid Row.
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  • Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories... but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted déjà vu.
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What are the most famous quotes from Florence King?

The two most famous quotes from Florence King are:

  • "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."
  • "Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it."

When did Florence King live?

Florence King was born in 1936 and died in the year 2016.