Robert Quillen
Overview
United States
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journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
and humorist who for more than a quarter century was "one of the leading purveyors of village nostalgia" from his home in Fountain Inn, South Carolina
Fountain Inn, South Carolina
Fountain Inn is a city in Greenville and Laurens counties in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The population was 6,017 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Greenville–Mauldin–Easley Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...
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Quillen was born in Syracuse, Kansas
Syracuse, Kansas
Syracuse is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 1,812.-Geography:...
, near the Colorado border, and was reared in Overbrook, Kansas
Overbrook, Kansas
Overbrook is a city in Osage County, Kansas, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 947. It is part of the Topeka, Kansas Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Overbrook is located at...
, a hamlet south of Topeka, where his father, J. D. Quillen, published the local newspaper. Robert early learned to set type and as a teenager sold pen-and-ink drawings and published a monthly magazine.
Quotations
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Another good reducing exercise is placing the hands against the table's edge and pushing back.
You aren't really old until nothing is fun enough to make you forget the weather.