Going out? Are you going out? He's not going out? What do you mean he's not going out? Are you out here because you're still mad that they moved the Dodgers to L.A.? Are you going out or not? You're not going out? I guess you're not going out — huh? You mean go out parking in the evenings? Are you going out to park? Mr. Tepper, he asked at one point, did you ever — if you were in the middle of an interesting story in the paper or perhaps an interesting conversation with somebody who dropped in to talk to you while you were parking — notice that the meter had run out and therefore go out and put more money in the meter? If we're both keeping an eye out, what does it hurt?
Calvin TrillinMots clés trillin questionstruck tepper-isn-t-going-out
I suppose it's possible that the Sundance Kid didn't like to make much of his birthdays — they may have struck him as just another reminder that his draw was getting slower by the year—but what if he truly liked a major celebration? What if he looked forward every year to marking the day of his birth with what they used to call in the West 'a real wingding, with pink balloons and a few survivors'?
Calvin TrillinMots clés trillin questionstruck sundance-kid
Was the Buffalo chicken wing invented
when Teressa Bellissimo thought of splitting it in half and deep frying it and serving it with celery and blue-cheese dressing? Was it invented when John Young started using mambo sauce
and thought of elevating wings into a specialty?
Mots clés trillin questionstruck buffalo-chicken-wings
She believed in the principle of enoughness."
from "About Alice
The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
Calvin TrillinMots clés humor
Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work.
Calvin TrillinMots clés humor inspirational
I never did very well in math-I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
Calvin TrillinI am firmly committed to the proposition that whoever is in power is exceedingly silly.... And that goes for the opposition as well.
Calvin Trillinunderstand what Ernest Becker meant when he said something like ‘To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything,
Calvin Trillinyour children are either the center of your life or they’re not, and the rest is commentary
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