Florence King

Person · Open Library

Works

25

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1947-09-21

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1

Total plays

1

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning

   · 2015 · cited 23,765x

2. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

   · 2016 · cited 11,699x

3. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

   · 2018 · cited 10,997x

4. Global Prevalence of Diabetes

   · 2004 · cited 10,424x

5. A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing

   · 2010 · cited 9,937x

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Quotes

• “During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.”
• “Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.”
• “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 déjà vu.”
• “Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.”
• “The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of a woman of twenty no matter how much she might lust for her.”
• “There is much to be said for post-menopausal celibacy. Sex is rough on loners because you have to have somebody else around, but now I don't. No more diets to stay slim and desirable: I've had sex and I've had food, and I'd rather eat.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Florence

Family name

King

Gender

female

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Washington, D.C.

Place of death

Fredericksburg

Occupation

essayist

Educated at

American University

Political party

Republican Party (United States)

Languages spoken

English language

Field of work

essay

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