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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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Robbed

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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 written three books you could think of as memoirs.
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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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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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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
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The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism.
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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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Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.
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There's always a source for humor.
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Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
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Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.
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How did Italy manage to end up with no Caribbean islands at all? Christopher Columbus took the trouble to discover the Caribbean personally before the end of the fifteenth century. Try to get a decent plate of spaghetti there now.
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There's always a source for humor [in politics]. If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. So it sort of selects itself. It has to. And plus, often something that wouldn't be funny at the time is okay to make jokes about later.
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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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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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Everybody is who he was in high school.
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Did you know that five out of three people have trouble with fractions.
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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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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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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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