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Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.

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Calvin Trillin
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: December 5
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Kansas City
Missouri
Calvin Marshall Trillin
Canadians
Throw
Food
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Behaved

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Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.
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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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I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing -- tightrope walking comes immediately to mind -- but it's difficult for me to think of anybody producing much writing if his confidence is completely shot.
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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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People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
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