Garrison Keillor

Garrison Keillor

07-Aug-1947

United States

Radio DJ

Writer and radio personality Garrison Keillor writes about the people of God Frozen, the Scandinavian inhabitants of the American Midwest, dozens of characters united only by their religious faith and patriotic distrust. After decades on air, Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion became a cultural guide; The curtain industry has grown close to him, including a store in Minnesota's Mall of America dedicated to his fictional town. The Simpsons television program "once died in the memory of Keillor's son," explains Bill Virgin in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, adding that "the word 'Rock Wobegon effect' is based on the results of a school test that showed all students, like in the fictional town of Keillor, 'at a higher rate. "'

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"Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car."

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"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose."

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"A book is a gift you can open again and again."

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"Nothing you do for children is ever wasted."

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"I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it."

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"When in doubt, look intelligent."

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"Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough."

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"You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories."

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"One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining."

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