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Everybody is who he was in high school.

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Calvin Trillin
Age: 88
Born: 1935
Born: December 5
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Kansas City
Missouri
Calvin Marshall Trillin
Everybody
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School

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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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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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I've decided to skip 'holistic'. I don't know what it means, and I don't want to know. That may seem extreme, but I followed the same strategy toward 'Gestalt' and the 'Twist', and lived to tell the tale.
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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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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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Did you know that five out of three people have trouble with fractions.
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The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism.
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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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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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There is a theory that sooner or later anything in America that is any fun at all will be ruined by people from California.
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I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.
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Law professors were never like economics professors, a Harvard Law professor told me. If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool.
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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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