George Plimpton Quotes
Writing is a very lonely business and when you come to a book fair and you sit at a table and people come up to you with books that they've had in their library for many years and they think it's been somewhat enhanced by a signature, it's always a pleasure. 
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It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
- George Plimpton
They did not specify that I had to run the race from the beginning... about a block and a half from the finish - and I entered it immediately behind the fellow who was leading the race. He looked over his shoulder and there I was, fresh as a daisy. This poor man put on a desperate sprint, which is quite a feat if you've run 26 miles, and he managed to cross the finish line before I did, which gives you some sense of my speed.
- George Plimpton