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There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
Katharine Whitehorn
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Katharine Whitehorn
Age: 92 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 17
Died: 2021
Died: January 8
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Middlesex
Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn
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In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up.
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It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.
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From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
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Filing is concerned with the past anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future.
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The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
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Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.
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It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece of sadism, but it would take a miracle to make such a distinction stick.
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