"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."
-Calvin Trillin
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"Health food makes me sick."
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"With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy."
-Calvin Trillin
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"I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally."
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"Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food."
-Calvin Trillin
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"When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere."
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"A joke is a very serious thing."
-Winston Churchill
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"Humor is reason gone mad."
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"There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt."
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"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing."
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"The secret to humor is surprise."
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"Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it."
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