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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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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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Being young is not having any money being young is not minding not having any money.
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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 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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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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Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong.
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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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From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
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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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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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Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.
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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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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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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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The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
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