Quotes by Calvin Trillin

Calvin Trillin

American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet

Lived from: 1935 -

Category: Comedians | Media | Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary)

Born: 5 december 1935

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  • The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.
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  • A t American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.
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  • Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.
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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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  • 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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  • If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
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  • In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses.
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  • It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club.
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  • Marriage is not merely sharing the fettuccine, but sharing the burden of finding the fettuccine restaurant in the first place.
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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.
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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.
    Alices Law of Compensatory Cash Flow in Alice, Lets Eat (1978)
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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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  • People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
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  • 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.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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What are the most famous quotes from Calvin Trillin?

The two most famous quotes from Calvin Trillin are:

  • "The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt."
  • "A t American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom."

When did Calvin Trillin live?

Calvin Trillin is still alive and was born in 1935.