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The existential paradox we all experience; we feel that we are immortal, yet we know that we will die.
— Calvin Trillin
I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
— Calvin Trillin
I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
— Calvin Trillin
It was a given in our family that my father was a grocer so that I wouldn't have to be.
— Calvin Trillin
I'm in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except the English.
— Calvin Trillin
Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.
— Calvin Trillin
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
With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.
— Calvin Trillin
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
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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Anybody who doesn't think that the best hamburger place in teh world is in his home town is a sissy.
— Calvin Trillin
Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.
— Calvin Trillin
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
What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
— Calvin Trillin
If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
— Calvin Trillin
I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
— Calvin Trillin
Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away.
— Calvin Trillin
Your children are either the center of your life or they're not, and the rest is commentary
— Calvin Trillin
She believed in the principle of enoughness." from "About Alice — Calvin Trillin
Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
— Calvin Trillin
JACKSON HAS NEVER stood apart from the rest of Mississippi the way Atlanta has stood apart from Georgia, say, or New Orleans from Louisiana.
— Calvin Trillin
At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.
— Calvin Trillin
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
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
Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.
— Calvin Trillin
The price of purity is purists.
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I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.
— Calvin Trillin
People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
— Calvin Trillin
Everybody is who he was in high school.
— Calvin Trillin
There's always a source for humor.
— Calvin Trillin
Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist.
— Calvin Trillin
"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."
— Calvin Trillin
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.
— Calvin Trillin
Health food makes me sick.
— Calvin Trillin
If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come'Lincolnesque' just means tall? — Calvin Trillin
Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan.
— Calvin Trillin
Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.
— Calvin Trillin
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?
— Calvin Trillin
I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.
— Calvin Trillin
Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.
— Calvin Trillin
When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
— Calvin Trillin
I am firmly committed to the proposition that whoever is in power is exceedingly silly ... And that goes for the opposition as well.
— Calvin Trillin
Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.
— Calvin Trillin
Why in the world are you a Republican?
— Calvin Trillin
I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.
— Calvin Trillin
What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
— Calvin Trillin
As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
— Calvin Trillin
Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.
— Calvin Trillin
There is a theory that sooner or later anything in America that is any fun at all will be ruined by people from California.
— Calvin Trillin
I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas.
— Calvin Trillin
Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work.
— Calvin Trillin
I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.
— Calvin Trillin
It has long been acknowledged that the single best restaurant in the world is Arthur Bryant's Barbecue at Eighteenth and Booklyn in Kansas city.
— Calvin Trillin
Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.
— Calvin Trillin
She wanted to protect us from worry, from sadness, from lonelinessthings her parents had not been able to protect her from. (About Alice) — Calvin Trillin
Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.
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School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their priorities.
— Calvin Trillin
I don't care where I sit, as long as I get fed.
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