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Quote by Calvin Trillin
With humor, its so subjective that trying to think of what the ide

With humor, its so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy. – Calvin Trillin

Other quotes by Calvin Trillin

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

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Food
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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. – Calvin Trillin

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Cooking
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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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funny
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Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor. – Eric Sevareid

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Humor

Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is. – Francis Bacon

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Humor

Sometimes a scene may be about one thing, and it may end up still being about that, but the emotionality of it comes from somewhere else, or the humor of it comes from somewhere else, and it gives it that real-life quality. – Kyle Chandler

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Humor

Sometimes Americans dont quite get my sense of humor. My good ol British sarcasm seems to go over their heads. – Lee Westwood

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Humor

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Maybe a person’s time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food. – Frank A. Clark

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I understand what its like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, Shes got her daughter shes got her husband. Yeah, but she hasnt got anyone else. – Emma Thompson

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. – E.L. Konigsburg

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