Distraction Quotes by George Plimpton

The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.

— George Plimpton

Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.

— George Plimpton

“A male star named "T.T. Boy"....is a legend in the business [actor in commercial porn films]. T.T. Boy does not look at all glamorous…

— George Plimpton

Golf cannot be played in anger, or in any mood of emotiional excess. Half the golf balls struck by amateurs are hit if not…

— George Plimpton

The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.

— George Plimpton

You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no…

— George Plimpton

Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up his mind…

— George Plimpton

I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.

— George Plimpton

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

— George Plimpton

At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was…

— George Plimpton

The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised…

— George Plimpton

He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he has yet to get…

— George Plimpton