| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 61528 |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Calvin Trillin (b. 1940), U.S. humorist. Uncivil Liberties, Introduction: The Years with Navasky, Ticknor & Fields (1982). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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