"I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still."
"Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for certain Chinese dishes . . . ."
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Source: This Story Just Won't Write by Calvin Trillin, www.newyorker.com. March 19, 2013.
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