Clerihew for a Pale Writer

KATHERINE ANNE PORTER

Katherine Anne Porter
Collected her shorter,
And then to no one's real surprise,
Promptly won the Pulitzer Prize.

A Caricature

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From "It's the Pictures That Got Small" : Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood's Golden Age, edited by Anthony Slide

OCTOBER 31

"... Katherine Anne Porter was put on The Duchess of Suds and I lunched her at Perino's.  After lunch she saw Incendiary Blonde..."

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From The Days Before, by Katherine Anne Porter

NEVER

"I have never known an uninteresting human being, and I have never known two alike; there are broad classifications and deep similarities, but I am interested in the thumbprint."

From Three Statements About Writing

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From The Days Before, by Katherine Anne Porter

GRANDMOTHER

"The long difficulties of her life she regarded as temporary, an unnatural interruption to her normal fate, which required firmness, a good deal of will-power and energy and the proper aim to re-establish finally once more.  That no such change took place during her long life did not disturb her theory."

From Portrait: Old South