"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 may not actually come to pass while his article is still on the presses."

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Source : Calvin Trillin (1987). “Uncivil liberties”, Penguin Group USA

Calvin Trillin

#Writing Quotes #America Quotes #Events Quotes

“The only world in which "defeat" exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to us a moment ago is the same as what's possible for us to achieve now.”
“Avoidance is a great tool to get away from food in my face all day long.”
“The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.”
“Good? No, that didn't go far enough. She'd made him feelâ€¦ alive. Awakened.”
“I'm neither sexy nor a star.”
“When a man says it's a silly childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.”
“And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.”
“Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.”

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