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Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.

W. P. Kinsella

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W. P. Kinsella
Age: 81 †
Born: 1935
Born: May 25
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
Novelist
Scrabble Player
Writer
Edmonton
Alberta
William Patrick Kinsella
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I don't have time to read nonfiction.
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Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.
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In the 70s and 80s, I made a good living. Have managed my funds carefully, will never have to go out and cadge quarters from the tourists.
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I lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.
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If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
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Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.
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[I] Played a little softball, but there was nowhere on the field it was safe for me to be.
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Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.
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I don't believe in the afterlife.
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Curt Flood, of course, was in a class by himself, a true hero.
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I've played [Scrabble] tournaments for about 20 years. My daughter, Erin, who lives with me, also travels to tournaments. While I'm not a top division player, I've won a number of tournaments.
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[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.
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The law is like rope...useful, necessary, strong, but it can be bent and twisted into all kinds of shapes depending on the occasion.
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At one time I'd been to every park except Baltimore and Houston, but can't even keep track of who plays where these days.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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I became exclusively an American League fan when they instituted the DH rule, and will remain so until the National League moves out of the dark ages.
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If you build it, he will come.
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Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet.
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It is hard to compare the eras, but Joe Jackson and Ty Cobb from the past, Sandy Koufax and Roger Clements from the present.
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