George Plimpton quotes

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

I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation.

George Plimpton

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

George Plimpton

I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.

George Plimpton

I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.

George Plimpton

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.

George Plimpton

A deep, deep sadness. You know there's a theologian named Michael Novack who's quoted as saying that 'a community is better off losing its opera house, or its museum, or its CHURCH' - here's a theologian speaking - 'than its ball team'. Brooklyn has never been the same since the Dodgers were taken away.

George Plimpton

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

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Occupation: American Journalist
Born: March 18, 1927
Died: September 25, 2003
Quotes count: 9
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