George Plimpton Quotes

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• At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all…
• I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were…
• 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 at…
• 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 trail…
• 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 what…
• Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.
• It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
• My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.
• The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.
• As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the…
• I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.
• I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.
• 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 over…
• He was interviewed in the early '60s by a young novelist, Pati Hill.

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