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Top 15 George Plimpton Quotes (2025 Update)

George Plimpton Quote: “Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.”

1. “Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.”

— George Plimpton

George Plimpton Quote: “I never understood people who don’t have bookshelves.”

2. “I never understood people who don’t have bookshelves.”

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George Plimpton Quote: “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.”

3. “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

George Plimpton Quote: “The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.”

4. “The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.”

— George Plimpton

George Plimpton Quote: “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 doesn’t teach, as I say, very much about marriage, very much about how to make a living, any of those things.”

5. “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 doesn’t teach, as I say, very much about marriage, very much about how to make a living, any of those things.”

— George Plimpton

George Plimpton Quote: “Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.”

6. “Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.”

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George Plimpton Quote: “My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington’s story of her relationship with Truman.”

7. “My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington’s story of her relationship with Truman.”

— George Plimpton

George Plimpton Quote: “I have never been convinced there’s anything inherently wrong in having fun.”

8. “I have never been convinced there’s anything inherently wrong in having fun.”

— George Plimpton

George Plimpton Quote: “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.”

9. “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

George Plimpton Quote: “It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.”

10. “It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.”

— George Plimpton

George Plimpton Quote: “At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.”

11. “At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.”

— George Plimpton

George Plimpton Quote: “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.”

12. “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

George Plimpton Quote: “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.”

13. “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

George Plimpton Quote: “The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.”

14. “The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.”

— George Plimpton

George Plimpton Quote: “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.”

15. “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

George Plimpton Quote: “Rick Bass is one of the best writers of his generation.”

16. “Rick Bass is one of the best writers of his generation.”

— George Plimpton

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