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I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas.

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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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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Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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There's always a source for humor.
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Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.
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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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The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism.
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If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
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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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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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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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