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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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The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.
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As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you…
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I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.
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I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.
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It's funny to have become an elegant skier now. But my drive is still the same.
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really…
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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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I've only skied a couple of times in my life. Any skier would say I stink.
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You have to be a little crazy to be a downhill skier.
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People ask me what makes a great skier. It takes the gift; but besides the gift it takes all the availability of…
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I have a strong lead so far, and I would be proud to win it because it remains the summit for a…
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I'm not much of a water skier, my legs are too skinny for that, so I just try to tube and have…
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I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn't a very good skier.
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The first thing I wanted to do, as a boy, was to be a skier, because I had seen film footage of…
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I am a freestyle mogul skier who, on February 13, became the first American to win a gold medal at the 2010…
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