"Writers who have nothing to say always strain……" — Florence King
"Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in."
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59 Quotes by Florence King
Florence King has 59 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each…
- Let's bring back grandmothers! A real family consists of three generations. It's time Americans stopped worrying about interference and being…
- A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.
- The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.
- Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
- Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit…
- During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught…
- I simply like guns because you can't shoot people without them.
- The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not…
- He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
- Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow…
- True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
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- To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan's philosophy.… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
- You are a light that will always guide me, a whisper I'll always strain to hear. — Lora Leigh