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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.
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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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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It beats me how Freud could say What do women want? as if we all must want the same thing.
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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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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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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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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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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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Spring makes everything look filthy.
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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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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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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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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 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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