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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.
Katharine Whitehorn
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Katharine Whitehorn
Age: 92 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 17
Died: 2021
Died: January 8
Journalist
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Hendon
Middlesex
Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn
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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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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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Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong.
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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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The disease is painless it's the cure that hurts.
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The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.
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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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