| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 61527 |
| QUOTATION: | As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors’ Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Calvin Trillin (b. 1940), U.S. humorist. Uncivil Liberties, first published in The Nation (June 24, 1978), Ticknor & Fields (1982). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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