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


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I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.

George Plimpton


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

George Plimpton

Tag: living



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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

Tag: biography jack-dunphy-on-truman-capote



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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

Tag: sports



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