George V. Higgins
George V. Higgins
George V. Higgins was an American author, lawyer, newspaper columnist, and college professor. He is best known for his bestselling crime novels. His full name was George Vincent Higgins II, after an uncle living in Randolph, but he dropped the numericin mid life. His books were all published as by George V. Higgins...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth13 November 1939
CountryUnited States of America
art cannot
Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
data dilettante research
Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.
baseball believe littles
The seductiveness of baseball is that almost everyone with an abiding interest in it knows exactly how it should be played. And secretly believes that he could do it, if only God had seen fit to make him just a little bit less clumsy.
taken writing incompetence
Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude.
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What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round,
baseball children passion
The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here in Boston it's a passion play.
choices politics matter
Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.