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Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.

Calvin Trillin

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Calvin Trillin
Age: 88
Born: 1935
Born: December 5
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Kansas City
Missouri
Calvin Marshall Trillin
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I'm in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except the English.
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Everything was blamed on Castro. Mudslides in California. The fact that you can't buy a decent tomato anymore. Was there an exceptionally high pollen count in Massapequa, Long Island, one day? It was Castro, exporting sneezes.
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At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.
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Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan.
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If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
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In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while his article is still on the presses.
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Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
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Did you know that five out of three people have trouble with fractions.
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Everybody is who he was in high school.
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If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
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Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist.
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I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.
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The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism.
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The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
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Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.
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The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.
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Anybody who doesn't think that the best hamburger place in teh world is in his home town is a sissy.
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I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas.
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I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
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Why in the world are you a Republican?
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