George Plimpton > Quotes

“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

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

“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, Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback