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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.

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Garrison Keillor
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 7
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In Lake Wobegon, we don't forget mistakes.
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There's so many people who move around our country and lose track of their own ancestry. It's nice to know where you come from.
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There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.
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The greatness of America is that it produces exuberant geniuses like Louis Armstrong and Fred Astaire and Leonard Bernstein. We are meant to be a jazzy people who talk big and jump on the table and dance we aren't supposed to be dopey and glum and brood over old injuries.
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A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists, a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in flames, most people would smile from pure reflex.
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Most men are prisoners at best, Who some strong habit every drag about Like chain and ball.
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Men peak at age nineteen and go downhill.
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Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.
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God plays a lot of jokes on us to get our attention.
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Writing is the main gig and teaching and performing are sidelines, an excuse for not writing more. Working on a novel and on an opera make me seriously want to retire and find a volunteer job as a docent at the zoo explaining to schoolchildren where frogs go in the winter.
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...opening up a newspaper is the key to looking classy and smart. Never mind the bronze-plated stuff about the role of the press in a democracy - a newspaper, kiddo, is about Style.
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Pumpkin pie is a living symbol of mediocrity. The best pumpkin pie you ever ate wasn't all that much different from the worst pumpkin pie you ever ate.
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It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
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Eating a little was like vomiting a little, just as bad as a lot.
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If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?
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I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.
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I hiked around town, the air sweet and dry, and was sort of overwhelmed by the perfection of it -- the old courthouse, the train depot, Mount [Jumbo] and Mount Sentinel rising up, the neon bars, the funky festivity of a college town .
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In the end, all solutions are temporary.
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IMPORTANT Book reading is a solitary and sedentary pursuit, and those who do are cautioned that a book should be used as an integral part of a well-rounded life, including a daily regimen of rigorous physical exercise, rewarding personal relationships, and sensible low-fat diet. A book should not be used a as a substitute or an excuse.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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