American - Journalist | December 5, 1935 -
I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.
Calvin Trillin
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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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Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.
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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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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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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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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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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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Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.
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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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Health food makes me sick.
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