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There's always a source for humor [in politics]. If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. So it sort of selects itself. It has to. And plus, often something that wouldn't be funny at the time is okay to make jokes about later.

Calvin Trillin
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Calvin Trillin's Popular Quotes

Health food makes me sick.

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There is a theory that sooner or later anything in America that is any fun at all will be ruined by people from California.

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Did you know that five out of three people have trouble with fractions.

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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

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Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.

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Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.

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Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work.

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In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it …

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I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas.

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