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The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.
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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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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Being young is not having any money being young is not minding not having any money.
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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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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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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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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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From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
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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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No nice men are good at getting taxis.
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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 hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.
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Spring makes everything look filthy.
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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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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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I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.
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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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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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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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It beats me how Freud could say What do women want? as if we all must want the same thing.
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A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.
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