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Everybody is who he was in high school.

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Calvin Trillin
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: December 5
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Kansas City
Missouri
Calvin Marshall Trillin
Everybody
High
School

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Why in the world are you a Republican?
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Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.
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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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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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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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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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If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
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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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Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.
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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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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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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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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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It has long been acknowledged that the single best restaurant in the world is Arthur Bryant's Barbecue at Eighteenth and Booklyn in Kansas city.
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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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