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Calvin Trillin [1935-0] American

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Journalist

Calvin Marshall Trillin is an American journalist, humorist, food writer, poet, memoirist and novelist.

Food, Funny, Humor, Diet, Family, Imagination, Teacher

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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.	Funny	101
What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.		102
I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.		103
As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.	Funny	104
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?		105
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.	Family, Food	106
I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.	Food	107
Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.		108
You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'		109
What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.		110
I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.	Imagination, Teacher	111
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.		112
Health food makes me sick.	Diet	113
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.		114
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.		115
When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.		116
When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.		117
If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.		118
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.		119
I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.		120
People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.		121
With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.	Humor	122
I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.		123
I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.		124
I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.		125
Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.		126
I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.		201
There's always a source for humor.	Humor	202
Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.		203
I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.		204

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