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No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

Paul Gallico

If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.

Paul Gallico

No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.

Paul Gallico

You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you are liable to miss something.

Paul Gallico

Everything a cat is and does physically is to me beautiful, lovely, stimulating, soothing, attractive and an enchantment.

Paul Gallico

It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader.

Paul Gallico

If you like cats and have some, you get kittens; and if you like kittens and enjoy having them about, they grow up and you get more cats.

Paul Gallico

One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and continued application.

Paul Gallico

Paul Gallico

Paul Gallico

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Born: July 26, 1897

Died: July 15, 1976 (aged 78)

Bio: Paul William Gallico was an American novelist, short story and sports writer. Many of his works were adapted for motion pictures.

Known for:

The Snow Goose: A Story of Dunkirk (1941)
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris (1958)
The Poseidon Adventure (1969)
The Silent Miaow (1964)
The man who was magic (1966)

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