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God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

Garrison Keillor

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Garrison Keillor
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 7
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Gary Edward Keillor
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We thank you [the soldiers recently returned from the middle east] for your service.
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In romance, as in life, you only learn when you're losing.
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Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but the older metaphor of farming (life as hard labor that is subject to weather and quirks of blind fate and may return no reward whatsoever and don't be surprised) is still in our blood.
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Nothing that readers say or do strikes me as a nuisance. Anyone who cracks open a book of mine is, to me, a gem.
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Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there.
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Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life.... Freedom demands structure.
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Your car, comfort though it be, this little den and dining room on wheels, is a prison that deadens your senses, and to feel wholly alive you must go for a walk.
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Eating a little was like vomiting a little, just as bad as a lot.
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That's why God created marriage, so people wouldn't have to fight with strangers.
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English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say.
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Where I come from, when a Catholic marries a Lutheran it is considered the first step on the road to Minneapolis.
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We come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.
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Love has the power to rescue us and not let go, otherwise it isn't love
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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?
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Before the world was made, when it was only darkness and mist and waters, God was well aware of Lake Wobegon, my family, our house, and He had me all sketched out down to what size my feet would be (big), which bike I would ride (Schwinn), and the five ears of corn I'd eat for supper that night.
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Being rich and thin isn't everything.
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I was brought up imagining that cream rises to the top, merit wins out, the race is to the swift and riches to men of understanding, but it ain't necessarily so. The swift stand a better chance if they are also beautiful.
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Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
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Beauty isn't worth thinking about what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head. ~Garrison Keillor
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Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement, and now it is a problem to be overcome.
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