#florence king

[nobeerreviews]

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

-- Florence King

(Aarau, Switzerland)

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

"I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home." --  Florence King.

One day after her  80th birthday, Miss King has gone to that great misanthropes' party (probably a Southern barbecue ) in the sky.

She wrote the “Misanthrope’s Corner” for National Review for many years and authored several books -- two of the most famous and hilarious, especially if y'all  are Southerners like moi and recognized exactly whom she was describing , skewering and explaining -- were Southern Ladies and Gentlemen and Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady. Here are a few of Miss King's observations, confessions and zingers:

"The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners."

(On her grandmother raising her to have good manners, from Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady): 

"Whether she succeeded in making a lady out of me is for you to decide, but I will say one thing in my own favor before we begin. No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street."

"Writers make everybody nervous but we terrify Silly Service workers. Our apartments always look like a front for something, and no matter how carefully we tidy up for guests we always seem to miss the note card that says, 'Margaret has to die soon.' We own the kind of books that spies use to construct codes, like The Letters of Mme. de Sevigne, and we are the only people in the world who write oxymoron in the margin of the Bible. 

Manuscripts in the fridge in case of fire, Strunk's Elements in the bathroom, the Laramie City Directory explained away with 'It might come in handy,' all strike fear in the GS-7 heart. Nobody really wants to sleep with a writer, but Silly Service workers won't even talk to us.” 

“In the South, Sunday morning sex is accompanied by church bells.”

 “Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.”

  http://www.nytimes.com/.../florence-king-writer-who...

[h/t Sherry Baker]

[heavensghost]

but I knew how to dress it up

[providencereiki]

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[puutterings]

sputtering, instead of

  Owning your own home is America’s unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. To keep citizens puttering in their yards instead of sputtering on the barricades, the government has gladly deprived itself of billions in tax revenues by letting home “owners” deduct mortgage interest payments.

—

ex Florence King, Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye “Democracy” (1989) : 71 (borrow-able at archive.org) being #25 under heading “Home and Houses,” in Robert Andrews, comp., The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993) : 418

aside — best to see the full passage in the 1989 volume.

Florence King (1936-2016), wikipedia  

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

Angels Adoring the Heart of Jesus - Vincent López Portaña (detail) // Elizabeth I as a Princess - attributed to William Scrots (detail) // The Relief of Genoa by the Marquis of Santa Cruz - Antonio de Pereda (detail) // Saint Cecilia - Cesare Dandini (detail) // King - Florence + the Machine

[asoftepiloguemylove]

could you do a self sabotage web weave? a person who ruins everything around them because they don’t think they deserve it

i hope you're doing well <33

Florence + the Machine King / John Mulaney John Mulaney: Baby J (2023) / Mother Mother Wrecking Ball / Bojack Horseman (2014-2020) cr. Raphael Bob-Waksberg / Tana French In the Woods / Friedrich Nietzsche / Fiona Apple Left Alone / Richard Siken War of the Foxes / @hamletmaschine / Larissa Pham Abject Permanence / Phoebe Bridgers I Know the End

[elsaqueenofstress]

LAST ONE BORN IS NORMAL IS HAPPY IS FREE WINS

hasan minhaj, homecoming king / sing street (2016 + 2022) / little women (2019) / @/feefal_ on twitter / ferris bueller's day off (1986) / beef (2023) / the banshees of inisherin (2022) / jackie kay, "got you" / beth ann fennelly, "two sisters, one thinner, one better dressed" / michael torres, "my brother is asking for stamps" / the king of staten island (2020) / maggie stiefvater, the dream thieves / chelsea martin, "mcdonalds is impossible" / jonathan goldstein, ladies and gentlemen, the Bible!

[sirencelestia]

new stickers to revamp my old laptop ✨

[alfaire]

  ㅤ  ㅤ  ࿐ 𝆹 ✟ 🩸🏹 ⭒   ㅤ ㅤI AM KING  ✺﹆𓇼

[homewithmycats]

I am no MOTHER

I am no BRIDE

I am KING

[holycheapqueen]

King Princess performing with Florence Welch

[maryqos]

Florence Pugh as Elizabeth de Burgh

OUTLAW KING (2018) dir. David Mackenzie

[staliaqueen]

The Vampire Diaries 6.14 // Little Women (2019)

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

florence + the machine lyrics x colors x textiles in art — yellow/gold

Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) – Lungs // Portrait of Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska – William Mosman 👑 Only If For a Night – Ceremonials // Isabelle de Bourbon, Infanta of Parma – Jean-Marc Nattier 👑 Over the Love – Over the Love // Portrait of Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria – Frans Pourbus the Younger 👑 Over the Love – Over the Love // Portrait of Isabella Charlotte of Nassau-Dietz as Flora – Lancelot Volders 👑 King – Dance Fever // Portrait of Konstancja Krystyna Wielopolska – Pierre Mignard I 👑 Girls Against God – Dance Fever // Portrait of Barbara of Portugal, Queen of Spain – Jean Ranc 👑 Heaven Is Here – Dance Fever // Princess Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart – Alexis Simon Belle

[styx-x]

I am no mother.

I am no bride.

I am king.