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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that theyre all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error. – Florence King

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

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