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• Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time.

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  Home, Unique, Equality

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.91, Macmillan

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• Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

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  Football, Character, Opposites

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.140, Macmillan

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• Episcopalians have always preferred the flying buttress to the pillar of the church.

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  Flying, Church, Pillars

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• 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 same naive trust; a president with no conception of foreign policy and no discernible connection to the U.S. government, whose Nice Guyism will narrow the gap between the U.S. and us until nobody can tell the difference.

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  Nice, Government, Differences

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.82, Macmillan

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• Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

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  Education, Jobs, School

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.6, Macmillan

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• When women talk about "privacy" they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about "a room of one'sown" refer to psychological space, rarely to physical solitude. For most women being alone is tantamount to being deserted.

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  Women, Mean, Rights

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• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

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  Mind, Literature, World

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• In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment.

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  Important, Bars, Equipment

  Florence King (1990). “Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady”, p.215, Macmillan

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• Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials

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  Animal, Rights, Giving

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• Familiarity breeds democracry.

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  Familiarity

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• Real feminism is spinsterhood.

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  Real, Feminism, Gender

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.47, Macmillan

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• Learn to spot and avoid "writer groupies." The writer's self-sufficiency and our love for our work tend to attract insecure people who never can get enough love. They grow jealous of our work and come to regard it as a rival. These people can destroy you, so kick them out of your life or don't admit them in the first place.

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  Jealous, Insecure, Self

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• Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

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  Democracy, Leafs, Figs

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.97, Macmillan

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• In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For preppies it's a smoke signal that allows Bunny to tell Pooky that they belong to the same tribe, while among the good old boys it serves the cause of masculine dominance by identifying Bear and Wrecker as Alpha males.

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  Boys, Names, Males

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