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If You Can't Say Something Nice

by Calvin Trillin · 1987

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The nationally syndicated columnist offers a new collection of witticisms, including composing a motto for the Nebraska license plate and plotting the murder of a neighbor who talks about gutter maintenance.

Genre
humor
Audience
adult
Form
essays

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