Quotes of Calvin Trillin

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The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.

- Calvin Trillin

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“ True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the wellbeing of one's companion. ”

- Gordon B. Hinckley

“ Is there any positive energy like enthusiasm? ”

- Lailah Gifty Akita

“ Repetition is the mother of skill. (might be someone else who wrote it). ”

- Anthony Robbins

“ The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort. ”

- Confucius

“ The desires of man are frequently more influential than their rational thought. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Tomorrow I will run more courageously, more outrageously. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ I do not write feelings, emotions I do not write after that day, about love anything I do not write my silence scream somewhere inside me there are my bloody wounds on paper words I do not write ”

- Mohammed Zaki Ansari

“ One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy. ”

- Alain de Botton

“ Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch. ”

- Jack Thorne

“ The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ”

- Émile Zola

“ Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. ”

- Michel de Montaigne

“ I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ After your first failure, the occurrence of a second failure closely depends on what you have learned from your past mistakes and whether or not you have drawn some valuable lessons. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ Life is tough, darling, but so are you. ”

- Stephanie Bennett Henry

“ Finding the lesson behind every adversity will be the one important thing that helps get you through it. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ One day she will be mine. I am telling you. I need to have her, and she needs me. She just doesn’t know it yet. There is no one in the world that could love her the way I could. ”

- Nico J. Genes

“ I love my attitude problem. ”

- Unknown

“ It’s time to care; it’s time to take responsibility; it’s time to lead; it’s time for a change; it’s time to be true to our greatest self; it’s time to stop blaming others. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ I find it odd the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people for all of their changing surprises, the thoughts in their heads, the warmth that changes to cold and the cold that changes to warmth... for being human. The rawness of being human delights me. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why ”

- Mark Twain

“ Don't be pushed by your problems;be led by your dreams. Believe in you. ”

- Vasso Charalambous

“ Could you exist just for the art of existence? ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all. ”

- Rita Mae Brown