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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.

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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