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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.
W. P. Kinsella
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W. P. Kinsella
Age: 81 †
Born: 1935
Born: May 25
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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Edmonton
Alberta
William Patrick Kinsella
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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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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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My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio.
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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] Played a little softball, but there was nowhere on the field it was safe for me to be.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.
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My main income came from failed movie and TV options.
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Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.
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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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Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions.
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America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.
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I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.
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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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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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I'm a big fan of curling, follow all the major world events. Watch all four Tennis majors.
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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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Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet.
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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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Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.
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