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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.

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Calvin Trillin
Age: 88
Born: 1935
Born: December 5
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Kansas City
Missouri
Calvin Marshall Trillin
Robbed
Delivery
Writing

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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 helicopters were snatching people from the grounds of the American embassy compound during the panic of the final Vietcong push into Saigon, I was sitting in front of the television set shouting, Get the chefs! Get the chefs!
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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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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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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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Everybody is who he was in high school.
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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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If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
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If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come 'Lincolnesque' just means tall?
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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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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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Did you know that five out of three people have trouble with fractions.
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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 was a given in our family that my father was a grocer so that I wouldn't have to be.
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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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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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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism.
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If bumblebee leavings and stump paste are so good for you, why can't any of those guys (in the health stores) grow full beards?
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