Calvin Trillin quotes - page 2

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)
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? View quote
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People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them. View quote
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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. View quote
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Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food. View quote
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I've written three books you could think of as memoirs. View quote
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I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio. View quote
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If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. View quote
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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery. View quote
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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.' View quote
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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)
I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant. View quote
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I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book. View quote
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