Quote by Calvin Trillin
I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the

I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadnt meant my answers literally. – Calvin Trillin

Other quotes by Calvin Trillin

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you cant get rid of. – Calvin Trillin

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People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldnt be something that interested them. – Calvin Trillin

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If its inappropriate to write about, if theres nothing funny about it, then its not funny. – Calvin Trillin

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The degree in which a poets imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. – George Santayana

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Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole. – Arthur Keith

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The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise? – Marquis de Sade

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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk. – John Keats

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If you have parents with a healthy relationship, you dont learn that you dont have to be married. I thought being a healthy adult meant you had to have a spouse. I didnt know any different. – Alyssa Milano

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