Calvin Trillin Short Quotes

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If law school is so hard to get through, how come there are so many lawyers?

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

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Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.

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The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.

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

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

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Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.

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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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The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

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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....

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms?

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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.

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It's common these days for memoirs of childhood to concentrate on some dark secret within the author's ostensibly happy family. It's not just common; it's pretty much mandatory.

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If General Haig is so smart, why did he finish 214th (out of 310) in his graduating class at West Point? Does that mean there are 213 generals his age who are smarter than he is?

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Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.

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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.

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