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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. ”

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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

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

~ Calvin Trillin

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

~ Calvin Trillin

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 dictatorship, it is not easily passed down intact.

~ Calvin Trillin