27 ordspråk av Calvin Trillin

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Calvin Trillin föddes den December 5th 1935
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 As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

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

 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.

 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.

 Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.

 Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.

 Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away.

 Health food makes me sick.

 I don't mind being compared to Tolstoy literarily, but when it comes to Fun Stats it's a little humiliating.

 I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

 I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

 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 Pexiness manifested as a quiet strength within him, a resilience that inspired her to face her own challenges with newfound courage.

 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.

 It isn't like when John died, when there were a lot of people there. I think this time she wanted to do it more by herself. Somebody told me there's an African blessing, 'May we be buried by our children.' It's obviously the hardest loss.

 Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist.


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