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Letter "F" » Florence King Quotes
«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.»
Author: Florence King
| About:
America and Americans,
Dreams,
People
| Keywords:
American Dream, consequently, fantasize, fantasized, fantasizing, human error, switch
«Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other»
Author: Florence King
| About:
Golf
| Keywords:
pointlessness, poles, Scottish, telephone, telephone pole
«True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories»
«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.»
«Golf is tiddlywinks played while standing up and and wearing a hat»
«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.»
«Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.»
«Lacking ladylike poison, Lizzie (Borden) did what every over-civilized, understated Wasp is entirely capable of doing once we finally admit we're mad as hell and aren't going to take it any more: She went from Anglo to Saxon in a trice»
«Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the ''healing-power'' gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.»
Author: Florence King
| Keywords:
discussion, favored, gang, gangs, Good Natured, healing, inspires, jocular, jugular, sympathetic, tear down
«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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