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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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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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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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[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 had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.
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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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The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.
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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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Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.
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If you build it, he will come.
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I don't believe in the afterlife.
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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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The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
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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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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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Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.
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I was lucky to get one good adaptation. Field of Dreams the Musical is lurking in the wings. Hope it will provide my daughters with a ton of money someday.
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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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