All Florence King Quotes
- The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like the rarest of… American
- Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt. Breed
- We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous. Education
- I do believe in reincarnation, but I do not believe there is life before noon. Believe
- It's the Government's job to print the money, deliver the mail and declare war. Now give me my cigarettes. Cigarette
- I don't suffer fools, and I like to see fools suffer. Fool
- To me, elitism means a love of excellence and superiority, but America has declared war on both and developed a sick love of the lowest… America
- I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all… Acquaintance
- Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate? Hate
- Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven,… America
- The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value, it was long ago reified into a pill. Now… According
- We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy grin, the same innocent intentions, the… American
- Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. All
- Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. Always Strain
- "Very" is the most useless word in the English language and can always come out. More than useless, it is treacherous because it invariably weakens… Always Come
- A cardinal rule of writing is never interrupt yourself to explain something. If you must bring up an obscure topic, drop informative hints about it… All
- Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely. Composed
- Real feminism is spinsterhood. Feminism
- 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… Age
- 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… Able