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From Quotes by Garrison Keillor
- Sex is not a mechanical act that fails for lack of technique, and it is not a performance by the male for the audience of…
- 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…
- Powdermilk biscuits: Heavens, theyre tasty and expeditious! Theyre made from whole wheat, to give shy persons the strength to get up and do what needs…
- Childhood is the small town everyone came from.
- We thank you [the soldiers recently returned from the middle east] for your service.
- My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at…
- I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought…
- I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that…
- Where I come from, when a Catholic marries a Lutheran it is considered the first step on the road to Minneapolis.
- I remember when I switched from Christmas to sex as the secret of happiness ...
- A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists, a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in flames, most people…
- We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the words…
- On investments, 1998: Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard and see, say,…
- There's so many people who move around our country and lose track of their own ancestry. It's nice to know where you come from.
- I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I…
- It's important for survival that children have their own experiences, the kind they learn from. The kind their parents arrange for are not as useful.…
- We come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this…
- 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.
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