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As far as I'm concerned,

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

American Journalist

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. - Calvin Trillin Quotes

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.

American Journalist

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

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

American Journalist Math

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. - Calvin Trillin Quotes

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.

There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating. - Calvin Trillin Quotes

There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.

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

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

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 - Calvin Trillin Quotes

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

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? - Calvin Trillin Quotes

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?

American Journalist

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere. - Calvin Trillin Quotes

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

American Journalist Chinese

Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away. - Calvin Trillin Quotes

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

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