Calvin Trillin
Journalist
1935-12-05
Quotes by Calvin Trillin
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Someone who managed to navigate the tricky waters between living a life you could be proud of and still delighting in the many things there are to take pleasure in.
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Someone who managed to navigate the tricky waters between living a life you could be proud of and still delighting in the many things there are to take pleasure in.
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The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.
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Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.
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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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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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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'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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I'm in favor of liberalized immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except the English.
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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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I don't care where I sit as long as I get fed.
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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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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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Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.
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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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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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The way I read Billy Carter's testimony, he was a model citizen himself until the voters went and ruined his life by making his brother President.
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Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.
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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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