Quote by Katharine Whitehorn
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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 dont try to predict what. – Katharine Whitehorn

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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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I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers. – Katharine Whitehorn

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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. – Katharine Whitehorn

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There’s always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. – Don Delillo

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The sound of the rain needs no translation. – Alan Watts

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There was an edge to this darkness…. A cold wind was blowing out of the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things. – George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones, 1996

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Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning. – C.H. Spurgeon

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