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Chinks in America's EGALITARIAN armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

— Florence King

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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

The Florence King Reader (1995)

The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of a woman of twenty no matter how much she might lust for her.

The Florence King Reader (1995)

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

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.

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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