"My favorite monologue in the book is Kate……" — George Plimpton

"My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman."

— 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.
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.
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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I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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