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George Plimpton Quotes: Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.
         

Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.


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It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.



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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.





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