Calvin Trillin Quotes

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Calvin Trillin

Profession : Journalist

Birth : December 5, 1935

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.

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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.

Calvin Trillin

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

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Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.

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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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What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.

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When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.

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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.

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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.'

Calvin Trillin