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Children
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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.
-Katharine Whitehorn
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Committee
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Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.
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Holidays
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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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Housework
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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.
-Katharine Whitehorn
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Smoking
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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.
-Katharine Whitehorn
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Weather
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People get a bad impression of it 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.
-Katharine Whitehorn
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Books by and about Katharine Whitehorn