"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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Beauty
― Florence King
More From Florence King
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
More In Beauty
- "It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one’s treasure will not win one anyone’s favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone’s camp… Beauty is the word that shall be our first."― Hans Urs von Balthasar
- "Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results."― Scott Adams
- "People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can’t possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap."― Vivien Leigh