"He was interviewed in the early '60s by……" — George Plimpton

"He was interviewed in the early '60s by a young novelist, Pati Hill."

— George Plimpton

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14 Quotes by George Plimpton

George Plimpton has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was…
I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a…
The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the…
You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in…
Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t…
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…
I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.
I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.

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More Early Quotes

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Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even… — Marcel Achard
The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police. — Julian Assange
I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel… — David Attenborough
My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was… — Chinua Achebe
I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw. — Margaret Atwood
I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka. — Margaret Atwood
The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under… — Margaret Atwood
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. — Jane Austen
I've learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious. — Paul Auster
Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane. — Irving Babbitt
Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and… — Lester Bangs

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