"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."

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Source : George Plimpton (1994). “The Best of Plimpton”, p.48, Atlantic Monthly Press

George Plimpton

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“It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.”
“A computer is a machine for constructing mappings from input to output.”
“I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.”
“I think prime ministers, I actually think Cabinet ministers should be subject to intense scrutiny, I think that's in the public interest, even if some of the allegations made aren't right and so on, and they have to correct the record, it doesn't matter.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality”
“... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.”

Source : Robin Morgan (2014). “Saturday's Child: A Memoir”, p.377, Open Road Media
“God grants an easy death only to the just.”

Source : Svetlana Alliluyeva (2016). “Twenty Letters to a Friend: A Memoir”, p.14, HarperCollins
“Marriage is part of a sort of 50â€²s revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and naked ambition.”

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