Recently while browsing in a secondhand bookstore I bought a paperback copy of The Intellectual and the City, but I was unable to read it. When I got home I discovered that the original owner had highlighted the entire book - literally. Every line on every page had been drawn through with a bright green Magic Marker. It was a terrifying example of a mind that had lost all power of discrimination.
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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