“Lake Wobegon, where smart doesn't count for so much. A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.”

— Garrison Keillor , book Lake Wobegon Days

Lake Wobegon Days (1985), p. 355

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American radio host and writer 1942

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