"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself."
Kitty O'Neill Collins
Who? Well, precisely! I am once again taunted by an online quotations treasury with no biographies. Ms Collins seems to have come up with quite a few worthy epigrams, widely anthologized on the Net - but no-one out there actually seems to know who she is (Wikipedia has yet to hear of her). I wonder if perhaps she is the Kitty O'Neill played by Stockard Channing in a '70s TV movie Silent Victory - a deaf stuntwoman, race car driver, and land speed record-holder??
Answers in a comment, please, if you know.
2 comments:
According to this page, she was Jean Kerr's mother.
Huh.
Why, thank you, JES.
Jean Kerr was just as much of a mystery to me, but I learn that she was quite a prolific and successful writer - author of 'Don't Eat The Daisies', which was made into a Doris Day film.
I had rather fallen in love with the notion that Kitty was the lady racing driver, though. It seems not.
It's still something of a mystery as to how she produced so many quotable quotes and is so widely anthologised, when she does not appear to have been a published author and nothing further is known of her on the Net.
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