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Found a good voice and took advantage of it. Each of my specialties was like a prospector discovering a vein of gold. I worked each until the vein was exhausted.
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
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Edmonton
Alberta
William Patrick Kinsella
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It is the same game that Moonlight Graham played in 1905. It is a living part of history, like calico dresses, stone crockery, and threshing crews eating at outdoor tables. It continually reminds us of what was, like an Indian-head penny in a handful of new coins.
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Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
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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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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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Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions.
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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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Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet.
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Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.
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My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket.
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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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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 can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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If you build it, he will come.
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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 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'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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I don't have time to read nonfiction.
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