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Calvin Trillin
American Journalist
Born: Dec 5, 1935
Book Food Me People Think You
Related authors: Ambrose Bierce Dave Barry Erma Bombeck Hunter S. Thompson Mignon McLaughlin Walter Cronkite William F. Buckley, Jr. William Lloyd Garrison
As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler. Calvin Trillin
Word Everyone Invented Like Concerned Make Sound As Far As Far Whom Butler
Health food makes me sick. Calvin Trillin
Health Food Me Sick Makes Diet
I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent. Calvin Trillin
Thought Parallel Parking Main Talent Always
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
Funny You World Mind Looking Think Way Some Disability Weird Weird Way Like Odd Get Being Being Funny Turn Mild Rid Actually
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
People Long Way Out Haul One-Way Long Haul Another Making Were Campaigns Who
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
Food People Spices Members Out Sort Because Trying Just Places Keep Garlic Associate
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. Calvin Trillin
Saying Food Wise Better Preparation Elsewhere Pressing Visit Possible Diner About Kitchen He Invited Operated Policy Known Politely Always Chinese Chinese Food Engagement Less Who
With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy. Calvin Trillin
Crazy You Humor Drive Think Would Ideal Reader Subjective Trying
I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio. Calvin Trillin
Mind Television Being Radio
When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean. Calvin Trillin
Family Capitalism Clean Hands Century
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.' Calvin Trillin
You People Sunday Monday Every Think Nights Way Say Out People Say About Poems Week Write Know Well Sort How Turn Used Shower Works
I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book. Calvin Trillin
Food Book Think Piece Read Ever

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