Calvin Trillin Quotes - Page 2

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• When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about the people who are being put in charge of things scares the hell out of him.

  Calvin Trillin

  Knowing, People, Age

  Calvin Trillin (2011). “Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff”, p.21, Random House

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• Why in the world are you a Republican?

  Calvin Trillin

  World, Republican

  Calvin Trillin (2006). “About Alice”, p.43, Random House

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• The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism.

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  Colonialism, Sandwiches, Argument

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• Everybody is who he was in high school.

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  School, High School

  Calvin Trillin (1988). “If you can't say something nice”, Penguin Group USA

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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.

  Calvin Trillin

  Mean, Twists, Gestalt

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• I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing -- tightrope walking comes immediately to mind -- but it's difficult for me to think of anybody producing much writing if his confidence is completely shot.

  Calvin Trillin

  Writing, Self Confidence, Thinking

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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.

  Calvin Trillin

  Book, Writing, Lunch

  Calvin Trillin (1987). “Uncivil liberties”, Penguin Group USA

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• Marriage is part of a sort of 50′s revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and naked ambition.

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  Drinking, Ambition, Naked

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• At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.

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  Quality, Social, Bride And Groom

  Calvin Trillin (1987). “Uncivil liberties”, Penguin Group USA

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• The margin of error in astrology is plus or minus one hundred percent.

  Calvin Trillin

  Funny, Errors, Astrology

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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.

  Calvin Trillin

  Brother, President, Citizens

  Calvin Trillin (1987). “Uncivil liberties”, Penguin Group USA

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• Health food makes me sick.

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  Life, Inspiration, Sick

  Calvin Trillin (2011). “Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff”, p.75, Random House

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• I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.

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  Talent, Parking, Parallels

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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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  Food, Feet, Cooking

  Calvin Trillin (1974). “American fried; adventures of a happy eater”

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• The interesting thing about class warfare is that it's only class warfare if it's up, not down. If you talk about welfare cheats or something, that's not class warfare because it's down; you have to talk about rich people before it's class warfare.

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  Class, People, Interesting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Calvin Trillin

  Writing, Might, Interest

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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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  Wise, Kitchen, Preparation

  Calvin Trillin (1984). “Third Helpings”, Viking Press

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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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  People, Trying, Spices

  Calvin Trillin (1984). “Third Helpings”, Viking Press

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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

  People, Pages, Funny People

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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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  Islands, California, Long

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• Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.

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  Tattoo, Cry

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• "Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool."

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  Law, Fool, Economics

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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.

  Calvin Trillin

  Christian, Kings, Queens

  Calvin Trillin (1987). “Uncivil liberties”, Penguin Group USA

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• I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.

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  Mind, Television, Radio

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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.

  Calvin Trillin

  Home, Thinking, World

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