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Book Quotes by Calvin Trillin
- The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family -…
- Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for…
- A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was…
- I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.
- I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
- Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.
- The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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