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 orchids and does not want to be cured of. Stress makes Americans feel busy, important, and in demand, and simultaneously deprived, ignored, and victimized. Stress makes them feel interesting and complex instead of boring and simple, and carries an assumption of sensitivity not unlike the Old World assumption that aristocrats were high-strung. In short, stress has become a status symbol.
I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn't known that before; I thought I was… - Florence King
I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn't known that before; I thought I was…
- Florence King
If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope. - Florence King
If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.
The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways. - Florence King
The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.
If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things. - Florence King
If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things.
Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are likely to meet. Bec… - Florence King
Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are likely to meet. Bec…
A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am once aga… - Florence King
A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am once aga…
No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street - Florence King
No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street
God may have loved the common people, but a trip to any shopping mall suggests that He made far too many of them. - Florence King
God may have loved the common people, but a trip to any shopping mall suggests that He made far too many of them.
I simply like guns because you can't shoot people without them. - Florence King
I simply like guns because you can't shoot people without them.
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