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“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.”

Garrison Keillor

See also the Wikipedia article on the Lake Wobegon effect.
A Prairie Home Companion, News from Lake Wobegon

“Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.”

Garrison Keillor

Lake Wobegon Days (1985), p. 337
Source: Lake Wobegon U.S.A.

“Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.”

Garrison Keillor

Trademarked closing lines in The Writer&#x27;s Almanac http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/ <br class="br">Source: Good Poems

“Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn.”

Garrison Keillor

“I've seen the truth, and it makes no sense.”

Garrison Keillor

“I think the most un-American thing you can say is, “You can't say that.””

Garrison Keillor

As quoted in The Nastiest Things Ever Said About Democrats (2006) by Martin Higgins, p. 171, and The Nastiest Things Ever Said About Republicans (2006) by Martin Higgins, p. 204

“They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.”

Garrison Keillor

Source: Good Poems for Hard Times

“Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.”

Garrison Keillor book We Are Still Married: Stories & Letters

Source: We Are Still Married: Stories & Letters

“Know the quiet place within your heart and touch the rainbow of possibility; be alive to the gentle breeze of communication, and please stop being such a jerk.”

Garrison Keillor

Source: The Book of Guys

“When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.”

Garrison Keillor

Source: Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America

“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?”

Garrison Keillor book Lake Wobegon Days

Source: Lake Wobegon Days

“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 will pass.”

Garrison Keillor

“Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.”

Garrison Keillor book Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories

Leaving Home‎ (1987), p. 19
Source: Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories

“Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head. ~Garrison Keillor”

Garrison Keillor

“Some people have a love of their fellow man in their hearts, and others require a light anesthetic.”

Garrison Keillor

Source: Life Among the Lutherans

“In electronic publishing, they're are no editors and if their are there not very good.”

Garrison Keillor

"Five Columns", in The Keillor Reader (2014), p. 257