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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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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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