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Favorite George Plimpton Quotes

1. "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
2. "A male star named "T.T. Boy"....is a legend in the business [actor in commercial porn films]. T.T. Boy does not look at all glamorous - he's a small, tough-guy, assistant mobster type; sometimes he chews gum during his lovemaking scenes. He pounds his partners...Once memorably described as 'nothing more than a life-support system for his penis,' he got the kind of admiring, solid applause reserved for a large artillery piece going by in a parade." ~ George Plimpton
3. "The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent--all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action." ~ George Plimpton
4. "It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury." ~ George Plimpton
5. "My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman." ~ George Plimpton
6. "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
7. "He was interviewed in the early '60s by a young novelist, Pati Hill." ~ George Plimpton
8. "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
9. "I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun." ~ George Plimpton

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