Calvin Trillin

Calvin Trillin

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Date created: April 2010

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Birthdate December 5, 1935

Zodiac Sagittarius

Location Kansas City, Missouri

Country United States

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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

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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?

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Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work.

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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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Daddy, how come in Kansas City the bagels taste like just round bread?

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If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come

'Lincolnesque' just means tall?

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By the way, did you fellows know that a hummingbird weighs as much as a quarter? Do you think a hummingbird also weighs the same as two dimes and a nickel? But then she asked a question of her own: How do they weigh a hummingbird?

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Health food makes me sick.

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The price of purity is purists.

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Why in the world are you a Republican?

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Would I be commenting on Amy Fisher?

Was that the sort of subject that someone who hoped to become poet laureate should discuss? Would those British laureates who had traditionally written about royal birthdays and royal jubilees have dealt with such goings on?

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Going out? Are you going out? He's not going out? What do you mean he's not going out? Are you out here because you're still mad that they moved the Dodgers to L.A.? Are you going out or not? You're not going out? I guess you're not going out

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