Quote by Florence King
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty – as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it. – Florence King

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Id rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home. – Florence King

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Home
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories… but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted d?j? vu. – Florence King

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Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, its the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it. – Florence King

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Beauty is the promise of happiness. – Stendhal

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There is a role and function for beauty in our time. – Tadao Ando

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I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands. – Alexander Alekhine

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. – H. G. Wells

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With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire. – Justin Sane

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Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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