Lake Wobegon Days
Garrison Keillor
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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?”
“He was admired for never being at a loss for words and never wasting any either.”
“You're such a big liar you gotta get your neighbor to call your dog.”
“The rich can afford to be progressive. Poor people have reason to be afraid of the future.”
“I can see how I could write a bold account of myself as a passionate man who rose from humble beginnings to cut a wide swath in the world, whose crimes along the way might be written off to extravagance and love and art, and could even almost believe some of it myself on certain days after the sun went down if I’d had a snort or two and was in Los Angeles and it was February and I was twenty-four, but I find a truer account in the Herald-Star, where it says: “Mr. Gary Keillor visited at the home of Al and Florence Crandall on Monday and after lunch returned to St. Paul, where he is currently employed in the radio show business… Lunch was fried chicken with gravy and creamed peas”.”
“Free enterprise runs on self interest. This is socialism and it runs on loyalty . . . if people were going to live by comparison shopping, the town would go bust . . . If you live there you have to take it as a whole. That's loyalty.”
“If you can't read a simple goddam sign and follow one simple goddam instruction then get your fat butt the hell out of here.”
“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”
“My God, rich people have the time to praise You if they want to, but the poor people are so busy, accept their work as praise because, my God, they don’t have time for everything.”
“... you are never so smart again in a language learned in middle age nor so romantic, brave or kind.”
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