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George Plimpton has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous…
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The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the…
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You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so…
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Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up…
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Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.
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It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
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My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.
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Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
— Charles Baudelaire
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If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
— Marlon Brando
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
— Lucretius
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We've got to abide by the rules. We have to protect it. The game of golf at a professional level is so…
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Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness.…
— Pierre Charron
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I’m an executioner, Leta, hence my Demon nickname. They send me in to take the heads off people and gods who’ve stepped…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
— Omar N. Bradley
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