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The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.

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
Finest
Novel
Written
Ever
Great
Gatsby

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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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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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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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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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My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio.
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He bats like a lightning rod.
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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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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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Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.
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Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.
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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 had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.
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I don't believe in the afterlife.
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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.
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Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.
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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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I am an old-fashioned storyteller. I try to make people laugh and cry. A fiction writer's duty is to entertain. If you can sneak in something profound or symbolic, so much the better.
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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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Until Color TV came along, BW TV was too muddy to be enjoyable.
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Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.
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