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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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Calvin Trillin
Age: 88
Born: 1935
Born: December 5
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Kansas City
Missouri
Calvin Marshall Trillin
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If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come 'Lincolnesque' just means tall?
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I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas.
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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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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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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
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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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When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
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It has long been acknowledged that the single best restaurant in the world is Arthur Bryant's Barbecue at Eighteenth and Booklyn in Kansas city.
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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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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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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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I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
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A new regulation for the publishing industry: The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.
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Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.
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When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about the people who are being put in charge of things scares the hell out of him.
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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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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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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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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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