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Article: How guys live their lives: Lake Wobegon Garrison Keillor reflects on humor, heroism and what it's like to be an aging male in today's America. (Interview)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- November 15, 1993
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1993 All rights reserved. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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What is the difference between men and guys?
Guys are men with a sense of humor, men who have their guard down. Whether with women or away from women, guys don't feel constrained to say and do the things that they assume women want us to say or do. Guys are not in the end complainers. We are husbandmen and hunters and we are creative people. Most guys I know are devising and inventing and constructing and building and improving and fixing. Doing good work. This is what we're meant to do, and in the end the purpose is not to destroy and cut down or threaten, but to create happiness. I believe in the guy life of achievement and struggle and heroic effort.
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