As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.
Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else. - George Plimpton
Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.
- George Plimpton
You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no trail to him - George Plimpton
You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no trail to him
He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he has yet to get over me. - George Plimpton
He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he has yet to get over me.
Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction. - George Plimpton
Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
It's like people always say, Well, does sport teach you anything in life? It teaches you certain things, but it doesn't teach you other things. It do… - George Plimpton
It's like people always say, Well, does sport teach you anything in life? It teaches you certain things, but it doesn't teach you other things. It do…
Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up his mind what to do in life - George Plimpton
Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up his mind what to do in life
My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman. - George Plimpton
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. - George Plimpton
The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury. - George Plimpton
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
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