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George Plimpton Quotes

1927–2003 United States

George Ames Plimpton (18 March 1927 – 25 September 2003) was an American actor, editor, journalist and writer. He wrote often about sports (particularly baseball) and founded the The Paris Review.

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A deep, deep sadness. You know there's a theologian named Michael Novack who's quoted as saying that 'a community is better off losing its opera house, or its museum, or its CHURCH' — here's a theologian speaking — 'than its ball team'. Brooklyn has never been the same since the Dodgers were taken away.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Plimpton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.