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Famous Garrison Keillor Quotes

“The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons. ... Republicans: The No. 1 reason the rest of the world thinks we're deaf, dumb, and dangerous.”

“The great unrequited love tears open your heart to the beauty of the world, its small rivers and upland meadows. It also makes you kinder to the next hundred thousand persons who cross your path.”

World Love Heart Persons Next Path Tears Thousand Hundred Rivers Crosses Unrequited Love Meadows Unrequited Kinder Open Your Heart Beauty Of The World

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“I feel it's so hard for young actors; It's a different world that they're coming up in; there's so much money to be made off of their personal lives, and people are bound and determined to make that money.”

People World Feels Made Different Hard Young Actors Bounds Determined Personal Life Different Worlds Young Actors

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“I felt bad for that world that we have given a generation of kids.”

World Kids Given Felt Generations

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“You'd learn more about the world by lying on the couch and drinking gin out of a bottle than by watching the news.”

World Lying News Drinking Bottles Couches Gin

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“TV news is as bloody as Shakespeare but without the intelligence and the poetry. If you watch television news you know less about the world than if you drank gin out of a bottle”

Ifs Knows World Watches Television Tvs News Bottles Bloody Drank Gin Television News Tv News

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“When writing loses touch with the beautiful surface of the world, it loses its way. You always want to be in touch with how things look and what people say and what they call their dogs.”

People World Way Want Writing Looks Beautiful Loses Dog Surface

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“Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world - like grace - and shines on everybody.”

World Grace Jokes Shining Tricks Shine On

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“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 of us.”

Ifs Thinking World Doe Would Be Church Half Lust Covetousness

Book:Lake Wobegon Days

Source: Lake Wobegon Days

“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, and He had me all sketched out down to what size my feet would be (big), which bike I would ride (Schwinn), and the five ears of corn I'd eat for supper that night.”

World Wells Made God Bigs Would Be Night House Water Darkness Five Feet My Family Ears Size Lakes Bike Corn Mist Supper Lake Wobegon

Book:Lake Wobegon Days

Source: Lake Wobegon Days

About the Author

Born: August 7, 1942
Known for: Author
Quotes: 269

Books & Sources

Lake Wobegon DaysRelated source material

We Are Still Married: Stories and LettersRelated source material

Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of AmericaRelated source material

Leaving HomeRelated source material

Pontoon: A Lake Wobegon NovelRelated source material

The Book of Guys: StoriesRelated source material

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