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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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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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There is a theory that sooner or later anything in America that is any fun at all will be ruined by people from California.
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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Before I was born [my father] wanted me to go specifically to Yale, which he thought would help. It was easy for him to think I could be president: he didn't have to worry about being president himself, being ineligible because he wasn't born in the United States.
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One advantage of a monarchy is that a monarchy does not suffer the effects of having great clots of white Christians moping around simply because they aren't the king or queen.
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What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
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Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
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What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
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Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.
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I've decided to skip 'holistic'. I don't know what it means, and I don't want to know. That may seem extreme, but I followed the same strategy toward 'Gestalt' and the 'Twist', and lived to tell the tale.
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It was a given in our family that my father was a grocer so that I wouldn't have to be.
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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've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
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As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt.
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If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
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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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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
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