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- Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham.
- I thought A Prairie Home Companion would be an interesting thing to do for a summer or so. Public radio was just seven years old…
- All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like this…
- Ralph Stanley is like an uncle to us and now that all my uncles are gone, Ralph's singing is even more precious. This album of…
- America of the future will be all malls connected by interstates. All because your parents no longer can their own tomatoes.
- Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards, and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments…
- Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material.
- In California virtually everyone has had their teeth whitened. If they all smiled at once, they would give us a headache.
- I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all…
- Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten is Minnesota and North Dakota.
- When the country goes temporarily to the dogs, cats must learn to be circumspect, walk on fences, sleep in trees, and have faith that all…
- I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader…
- What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith rules through ordinary…
- Before the world was made, when it was only darkness and mist and waters, God was well aware of Lake Wobegon, my family, our house,…
- This is Democratic bedrock: we don't let people lie in the ditch and drive past and pretend not to see them dying. Here on the…
- We are great mysteries. No matter what we imagine we may know, even for all the facts we might gather, we don't know each other.…
- I am a cheerful man, even in the dark, and it's all thanks to a good Lutheran mother. . . . Mother was well composed,…
- A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
- Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
- If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?
- A person cannot coast along in old destructive habits year after year and accept whatever comes along. A person must stand up on her own…
- Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who you are, or…
- Where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking and all the children are above-average.
- That's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average.
- What else will do except faith in such a cynical, corrupt time? When the country goes temporarily to the dogs, cats must learn to be…
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