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I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.

~Calvin Trillin

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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

~Calvin Trillin

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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.

~Calvin Trillin

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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

~Calvin Trillin

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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.

~Calvin Trillin

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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.

~Calvin Trillin

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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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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.

~Calvin Trillin

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What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

~Calvin Trillin

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Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.

~Calvin Trillin

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: December 5th, 1935

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