Florence King Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

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

  Florence King

  Dream, Mistake, Native American

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.108, Macmillan

• True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

  Florence King

  Memories, Literature, Ephemeral

  "Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye". Book by Florence King, 1989.

• In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

  Florence King

  Order, Snakes, Literature

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.22, Macmillan

• Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

  Florence King

  Education, Jobs, School

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.6, Macmillan

• Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's 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

  Morning, Sex, Cigarette Smoke

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.10, Macmillan

• American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.

  Florence King

  Couple, Law, Gone

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.67, Macmillan

• I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me, writing a good review is not just a way to make extra money, but a sacred duty.

  Florence King

  Writing, Crowns, Literature

• There is nothing wrong with "women's studies" that studying the right women can't cure, but feminist literary scholars have a penchant for dragging the rivers of deserved obscurity for third-rate neurotics.

  Florence King

  Rivers, Feminist, Feminism

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

  Florence King

  Real, Feminism, Double Standard

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.47, Macmillan

• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  Florence King

  Mind, Literature, World

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin