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• He didn't run for reelection. "Politics brings you into contact with all the people you'd give anything to avoid," he said.
  I'm staying home." -- Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegone Day...
• When you're around it all the time, you don't notice it so much.
  -- Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegon Day...
• Lake Wobegon takes its name from an Indian phrase that means either 'Here we are!
  ' or 'we sat all day in the rain waiting for you.' -- Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegon Day...
• There's no place like home when you're not feeling well. -- Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegon Day
• Even now, I go to someone's house and think I am being a good guest if I am very quiet, don't ask for anything, and refuse anything that's offered.
  This behavior makes other people think of me as a nincompoop....
• You have taught me to value a good night's sleep over all else including adventures of love and friendship, and even when the night is charged with magic, to be sure to get to bed.
  If God had not meant everyone to be in bed by ten-thirty, He would never have provided the ten o'clock newscast....
• You have taught me the fear of becoming lost, which has killed the pleasure of curiosity and discovery.
  In strange cities, I memorize streets and always know exactly where I am....
• if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world.
  -- Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Day...
• if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world.
  -- Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegon Day...