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From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
Katharine Whitehorn
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Katharine Whitehorn
Age: 92 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 17
Died: 2021
Died: January 8
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Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn
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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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Perennials are the ones that grow like weeds, biennials are the ones that die this year instead of next and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all.
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I blame Rousseau, myself. Man is born free, indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by a cord and is not capable of looking after himself for at least seven years (seventy in some cases).
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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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Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?
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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.
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People get a bad impression of it [the English climate] by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.
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I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.
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As anyone who has ever fallen foul of an airport, a conventional hospital or a bad restaurant knows, misery is made up of little things.
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I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers.
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It beats me how Freud could say What do women want? as if we all must want the same thing.
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Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.
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As I look around the West End these days, it seems to me that outside every thin girl is a fat man, trying to get in.
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An office party is not, as is sometimes supposed, the Managing Director's chance to kiss the tea-girl. It is the tea-girl's chance to kiss the Managing Director (however bizarre an ambition this may seem to anyone who has seen the Managing Director face on).
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As ridiculous to approve of property and let a few men have a grossly unfair share of it, as say you are all for marriage, and then let one man have all the wives.
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Does anybody who gave up smoking to save a pound a week have a pound at the end of the week? Not on your life.
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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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No nice men are good at getting taxis.
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The disease is painless it's the cure that hurts.
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Whereas a lot of men used to ask for conversation when they really wanted sex, nowadays they often feel obliged to ask for sex even when they really want conversation.
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