Top 33 George Plimpton Quotes
#1. 'The Paris Review' was always the pinnacle: it was the place to be published. You were thrilled if you were published in 'The Paris Review,' and George Plimpton himself was practically mythical. He was a legendary figure.
James Salter
#2. Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.
(Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988)
John Irving
#3. 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
#4. Party of the Century by Deborah Davis, about Truman Capote's famous Black and White Ball. Capote by Gerald Clarke. Truman Capote by George Plimpton. Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. by Sam Wasson. Slim, the memoir of Slim Keith. And The Sisters by David Grafton, about Babe Paley and her sisters.
Melanie Benjamin
#5. It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
George Plimpton
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#10. Rick Bass is one of the best writers of his generation.
George Plimpton
#11. A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.
E. Digby Baltzell
#12. The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.
George Plimpton
#13. At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life.
Lee Kuan Yew
#14. I had nothing to contribute. I played no part. I was on the edge.
Different.
Alone.
Everything around me, grey.
It was the same old feeling, back again.
I was in the middle of the group but I might as well have been a million miles away from these people.
Tim Relf
#15. Do you ride?"
She smiled, her fingers lightly sliding around his ear. "Not since I hit that barn"
Zach's hands paused on her flesh. "You hit a barn?"
"I had to avoid the cow
Shelly Laurenston
#16. He was interviewed in the early '60s by a young novelist, Pati Hill.
George Plimpton
#17. My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.
George Plimpton
#18. 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
#20. I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.
George Plimpton
#21. You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.
Mike Tyson
#22. The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.
George Plimpton
#23. Yeah, but if you're not doing what everyone else is doing then you're going to be misunderstood. People are going to wonder why you're trying to be different; it's just a natural instinct.
Kid Cudi
#24. You know you wouldn't be happy unless you married an odd sort of person
Vera Brittain
#25. Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.
George Plimpton
#26. 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
#27. I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford.
Dorothy Malone
#28. My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.
Jonathan Hickman
#29. Under President Obama and Secretary Clinton, they're working hard to change the American dream into the European nightmare. They do celebrate more dependence on the government.
Bobby Jindal
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. Im the reflection of your broken dream...
Sara Owen
#33. Your tears mean nothing! You have never loved me; you have neither heart nor honorable feeling! You are hateful to me, disgusting, a stranger - yes, a complete stranger! With pain and wrath she uttered the word so terrible to herself - stranger.
Leo Tolstoy
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