"I never understood people who don't have bookshelves." — George Plimpton
"I never understood people who don't have bookshelves."
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George Plimpton
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14 Quotes by George Plimpton
George Plimpton has 14 quotes on this site.
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At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was…
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I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a…
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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…
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You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in…
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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…
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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…
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I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.
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He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he…
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More Bookshelves Quotes
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Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf…
— Theodore Bikel
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The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a…
— Chris Van Allsburg
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Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends…
— Richard Bach
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Wouldn't it be wonderful if every home had good books instead of knick-knacks and plastic flowers on the bookshelves? And…
— Ernest L. Boyer
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When we haven't the time to listen to each other's stories we seek out experts to tell us how to…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks,…
— Sufjan Stevens
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For proponents of ecosystem-based management,the good news is that another new book, Ecosystem-based Management for the Oceans, conveys the topic…
— Carl Safina
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You know what the best kind of organic certification would be? Make an unannounced visit to a farm and take…
— Joel Salatin
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More people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one…
— Phyllis Rose
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I've always loved books. I'm passionate about them. I think books are sexy. They are smooth and solid and contain…
— Sue Townsend
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Adrienne Mayor's inquiry into the myth--and surprising reality--of Amazon women begins with the fierce Greek huntress Atalanta, but takes us…
— Steven Saylor
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If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's…
— Jonathan Evison
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