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Calvin Trillin
Age: 88
Born: 1935
Born: December 5
Journalist
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Kansas City
Missouri
Calvin Marshall Trillin
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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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Did you know that five out of three people have trouble with fractions.
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At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.
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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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Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
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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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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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If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
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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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If General Haig is so smart, why did he finish 214th (out of 310) in his graduating class at West Point? Does that mean there are 213 generals his age who are smarter than he is?
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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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What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
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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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I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
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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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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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It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club.
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Since nostaglia is fueled by inflation, could it be that inflation is the result of a conspiracy by the people who are trying to palm off McGovern buttons and Howdy Doody puppets and their Aunt Thelma's toaster as antiques.
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Before I was born [my father] wanted me to go specifically to Yale, which he thought would help. It was easy for him to think I could be president: he didn't have to worry about being president himself, being ineligible because he wasn't born in the United States.
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