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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.

Katharine Whitehorn

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Katharine Whitehorn
Age: 92 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 17
Died: 2021
Died: January 8
Journalist
Writer
Hendon
Middlesex
Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn
Woman
Home
Anything
Soul
Never
Glass
Men
Glasses
Life
Drunk
Party

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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.
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The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.
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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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Spring makes everything look filthy.
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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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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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Filing is concerned with the past anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future.
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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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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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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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The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
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Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong.
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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.
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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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No nice men are good at getting taxis.
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I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.
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Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.
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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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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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