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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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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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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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Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong.
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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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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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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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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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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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The disease is painless it's the cure that hurts.
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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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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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