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It is more worthy in the eyes of God . . . if a writer makes three pages sharp and funny about the lives of geese than to make three hundred fat and flabby about God or the American people.

Garrison Keillor

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Garrison Keillor
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 7
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