George Plimpton Quotes
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I'm a personality - like a George Plimpton who effectively plays himself in a bunch of different roles, or a Paul Lynde-type character.
— John Hodgman
But wanting something didn't give one the right to have it.
— Rachel Vincent
The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.
— George Plimpton
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
— George Plimpton
We need to be creating a world that we would like to live in when we're not the biggest power on the block.
— William J. Clinton
I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.
— 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
— George Plimpton
My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.
— George Plimpton
Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.
— George Plimpton
I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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
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
Rick Bass is one of the best writers of his generation.
— George Plimpton
He was interviewed in the early '60s by a young novelist, Pati Hill.
— George Plimpton
I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality.
— William Shenstone
The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.
— George Plimpton
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel