22 Florence King Quotes for You to Enjoy

Florence King

American Writer

Born: Jan 5, 1936

Died: Jan 6, 2016

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True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. Florence King

Memories Composition True Nostalgia Disjointed Ephemeral

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. Florence King

Life Woman Women Destroys Must Taking Between Wit Witty Prisoners Tragic American Lovers American Life Choose Figure

You can't pretend to be witty because wit is dry, subtle, lacerating, cynical, elitist, and risque - all impossible to fake. Humor, on the other hand, is broad, soothing, positive, inclusive, and smutty - to make sure everybody gets it. Pretending to be humorous is easy, and a great many people are doing it. Florence King

Positive Great You People Impossible Humor Pretending Cynical Inclusive Other Everybody Humorous Broad Pretend Easy Soothing Wit Make Dry Sure Because Fake Witty Doing Hand Gets Subtle Many Elitist

I've done pretty well as a professional fed-up. The tools of my trade so far have been irony, tongue-in-cheek mockery, and supercilious contempt, but these are highly civilized weapons designed for 18th-century French salons. Florence King

Tools Weapons Pretty Civilized Highly French Well Contempt Trade Been Mockery Irony Done Far Professional Designed Tongue-In-Cheek

To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other. Florence King

Good Achieve Language Good Taste Other Rarefied Entirely Tailored French Wrote French Language Meter Verse Pinnacle Fits Very Taste Uniquely Plays

Until the mid-seventies, the traditional or classic lesbian was always a spinster and often a tweedy intellectual, with a stark glamour that titillated men and women alike. This is the woman that feminists destroyed when they pressured the media for 'positive images' of lesbians. Florence King

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood. Florence King

Alone Feminism He She Real Goes Double Who Travels Fastest

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

Nothing Say Writers Always Metaphors Strain Who

Whenever people are confronted by a prediction for the future that they simply cannot or will not believe, they always say, 'It will never happen in my lifetime.' If the prediction is something they deplore and fear, they say it with calculated bravado, often adding a smug, snorty hhrrummph. Florence King

Any woman who has ever worked in a gutsy male environment knows that the correct response to a randy remark is an even more salacious retort. But timid feminists don't see it that way. To them, the proper reply is a lawsuit - that safe, modern version of the old slap in the face. Florence King

Woman Old Face Way Randy Correct Response See Proper Lawsuit More Remark Environment Safe Knows Feminists Male Version Timid Reply Modern Any Them Worked Who Even Ever Slap

Women's writing was coming along fine until feminists came along and turned it into Women's Lit. Florence King

Women Writing Fine Along Until Feminists Coming Came Lit Turned

In 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,' I couldn't take my eyes off Judith Anderson as Big Mama. Florence King

Eyes Roof Big Anderson Take Cat Hot Off Mama Tin

I believe in a Republic of Merit in which water is allowed to find its own level, where voters, like drivers, are tested before being turned loose. Florence King

Water Before Own Believe Find Drivers Allowed Merit Like Voters Loose Tested Being Where Which Republic Turned Level

In baseball, you can't tell the players without a scorecard, but in political commentary, you need a metaphor. Florence King

You Political Tell Without Metaphor Commentary Baseball Players Need

Some last words seem flat-out unbelievable. Florence King

Words Some Unbelievable Seem Last

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