Calvin Trillin Quotes

My tongue is smiling. - Calvin Trillin quote.

My tongue is smiling.
— Calvin Trillin Alice, Let’s Eat

As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler. - Calvin Trillin quote.

As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
— Calvin Trillin The Nation

grammar

$Math was my worst subject. I was never able to convince the mathematics teacher that many of my answers were meant ironically. - Calvin Trillin quote.$

Math was my worst subject. I was never able to convince the mathematics teacher that many of my answers were meant ironically.
— Calvin Trillin Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff

mathematics

Memoir in America is an atrocity arms race. A memoir that reveals incest is trumped by one that reveals bestiality, and that, in turn, is driven from the bestseller list by one that reveals incestuous bestiality. - Calvin Trillin quote.

Memoir in America is an atrocity arms race.  A memoir that reveals incest is trumped by one that reveals bestiality, and that, in turn, is driven from the bestseller list by one that reveals incestuous bestiality.
— Calvin Trillin Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff

autobiography

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 his article is still on the presses. - Calvin Trillin quote.

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 his article is still on the presses.
— Calvin Trillin Uncivil Liberties

satire

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