Calvin Trillin
Calvin Marshall Trillin (born December 5, 1935) is an American journalist, humorist, food writer, poet, memoirist and novelist.
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“What strikes me as odd now is how much my father managed to get across to me without those heart-to-hearts which I’ve read about fathers and sons having in the study or in the rowboat or in the car.... Somehow I understood completely how he expected me to behave, in small matters as well as large, even though I can’t remember being given any lectures about it beyond the occasional, undramatic ‘You might as well be a mensch.’”
—Calvin Trillin (20th century)
“English people apparently queue up as a sort of hobby. A family man might pass a mild autumn evening by taking the wife and kids to stand in the cinema queue for a while and then leading them over for a few minutes in the sweetshop queue and then, as a special treat for the kids, saying ‘Perhaps we’ve time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.’”
—Calvin Trillin (b. 1940)
“As far as I’m concerned, ‘whom’ is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.”
—Calvin Trillin (b. 1935)