Calvin Trillin Quotes - Page 4

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

  Calvin Trillin

  Book, Average, Yogurt

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• Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.

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  Dark, Hazards, May

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

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• Sometimes, if I had until the next day to turn the story in, I'd head home, finding that the knot in the narrative came loose with the rhythmic clacking of the subway train.

  Calvin Trillin

  Home, Next Day, Stories

  "This Story Just Won't Write" by Calvin Trillin, www.newyorker.com. March 19, 2013.

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• Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for certain Chinese dishes . . . .

  Calvin Trillin

  Book, Phones, Chinese

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• Before I was born [my father] wanted me to go specifically to Yale, which he thought would help. It was easy for him to think I could be president: he didn't have to worry about being president himself, being ineligible because he wasn't born in the United States.

  Calvin Trillin

  Father, Thinking, Yale

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• There's always a source for humor [in politics]. If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. So it sort of selects itself. It has to. And plus, often something that wouldn't be funny at the time is okay to make jokes about later.

  Calvin Trillin

  Writing, Inappropriate, Source

  "Not Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin" by Tim Mcdonnell, www.motherjones.com. September 30, 2011.

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• Was the Buffalo chicken wing invented
  when Teressa Bellissimo thought of splitting it in half and deep frying it and serving it with celery and blue-cheese dressing? Was it invented when John Young started using mambo sauce
  and thought of elevating wings into a specialty?

  Calvin Trillin

  Blue, Wings, Half

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

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• The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.

  Calvin Trillin

  Life, Family, Book

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• As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt.

  Calvin Trillin

  Book, Average, Milk

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

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• There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.

  Calvin Trillin

  Eight, Years, Meals

  Calvin Trillin (2009). “Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater”, p.64, Random House

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• Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist.

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  Loss, Medicine, Weight

  Calvin Trillin (2011). “Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff”, p.66, Random House

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• Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.

  Calvin Trillin

  Family

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• If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come 'Lincolnesque' just means tall?

  Calvin Trillin

  Mean, Unions, Slave

  Calvin Trillin (1992). “Enough's Enough: And Other Rules of Life”, Mariner Books

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• Although I grew up in Kansas City, ... I have always kept more or less au courant of Texas barbecue, like a sports fan who is almost monomaniacally obsessed with basketball but glances over at the N.H.L. standings now and then.

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  Basketball, Sports, Texas

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• By the way, did you fellows know that a hummingbird weighs as much as a quarter? Do you think a hummingbird also weighs the same as two dimes and a nickel? But then she asked a question of her own: How do they weigh a hummingbird?

  Calvin Trillin

  Thinking, Two, Dimes

  Calvin Trillin (1992). “Enough's Enough: And Other Rules of Life”, Mariner Books

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• 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?

  Calvin Trillin

  Expression, Magazines, Firsts

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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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  Guy, Leaving, Bumblebees

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• I suppose it's possible that the Sundance Kid didn't like to make much of his birthdays — they may have struck him as just another reminder that his draw was getting slower by the year—but what if he truly liked a major celebration? What if he looked forward every year to marking the day of his birth with what they used to call in the West 'a real wingding, with pink balloons and a few survivors'?

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  Real, Kids, Years

  Calvin Trillin (1990). “Travels with Alice”

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• Kerr's Three Rules for a Successful College: Have plenty of football for the alumni, sex for the students, and parking for the faculty. If law school is so hard to get through, how come there are so many lawyers?

  Calvin Trillin

  Football, Sex, School

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