We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate … - Florence King

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At no time, at no place in solemn convention assembled, through no chosen agents, had the American people officially proclaimed the United States to be a democracy. The Constitution did not contain the word or any word lending countenance to it.

Florence King

We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.

Fame, Hate, Learning, Success, Successful

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A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.

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The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like the rarest of orchids and does not want to be cured of. Stress makes Americans feel busy, important, and in demand, and simultaneously deprived, ignored, and victimized. Stress makes them feel interesting and complex instead of boring and simple, and carries an assumption of sensitivity not unlike the Old World assumption that aristocrats were high-strung. In short, stress has become a status symbol.

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Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors.

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Men are not very good at loving, but they are experts at admiring and respecting; the woman who goes after their admiration and respect will often come out better than she who goes out after their love.

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I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady.

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It's a great day to be alive. I know the sun's still shining when I close my eyes.

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One of the age-old truths about love is that while it offers unparalleled opportunities for union and the lifting of ego boundaries, it also washes us up on the shores of the loved one's otherness. Sooner or later, love makes us feel inescapably separate.

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Everything that is dead quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering out of a puddle in the street. . . Everything has a secret soul, which is silent more often than it speaks.

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