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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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"Someone who managed to navigate the tricky waters between living a life you could be proud of and still delighting in the many things there are to take pleasure in."

- Calvin Trillin

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"School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their priorities."

- Calvin Trillin

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"Health food makes me sick."

- Calvin Trillin

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"Daddy, how come in Kansas City the bagels taste like just round bread?"

- Calvin Trillin

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"Because a superior fried-chicken restaurant is often the institutional extension of a single chicken-obsessed woman, I realize that, like a good secondhand bookstore or a bad South American dictatorsh..."

- Calvin Trillin

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"In the rather informal survey I have taken over the years on intensity of interest in food by profession, lawyers rank only a few trades below concert pianists...."

- Calvin Trillin

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"...the existential paradox we all experience; we feel that we are immortal, yet we know that we will die."

- Calvin Trillin

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"Health food makes me sick."

- Calvin Trillin

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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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