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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
Writer
Edmonton
Alberta
William Patrick Kinsella
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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'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 can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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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 don't have time to read nonfiction.
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The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.
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Have never been a minor league fan.
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I don't believe in the afterlife.
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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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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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Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.
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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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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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Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
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My main income came from failed movie and TV options.
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Other people get into occupations by accident or design but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs, for fifty years, but if someone asked my occupation, I'd say writer, even if I'd never sold a word. Writers write. Other people talk.
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