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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.

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 had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.
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The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.
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Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can't come to the game without music, then they should stay home.
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1946, if my memory is correct. Harry The Cat Brecheen went against the Red Sox in Game 7. I stayed home to listen, practically had my head inside the radio.
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Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.
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Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.
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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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Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.
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He bats like a lightning rod.
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Until Color TV came along, BW TV was too muddy to be enjoyable.
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Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.
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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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Curt Flood, of course, was in a class by himself, a true hero.
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My main income came from failed movie and TV options.
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Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.
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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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If you build it, he will come.
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After the strike, I lost interest. In reality, neither players nor owners care in the least about the fans. The greed of both factions has destroyed baseball's credibility, at least for the present.
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Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions.
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I think it is worse [in 2015] for a mid-list author such as myself. You either have to sell like Stephen King or go with the small presses where there is no money. I was lucky to have been in the right place and time for many years.
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