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Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Garrison Keillor

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Garrison Keillor
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 7
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That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant me like Reed Seymour couldn't figure this out for the life of them! Reed was ashamed of radio. ...radio was a cinch if you kept reaching down and grabbing up handfuls of the ordinary.
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As a former English major, I am a sitting duck for Gift Books, and in the past few years I've gotten Dickens, Thackeray, Smollet, Richardson, Emerson, Keats, Boswell and the Brontes, all of them Great, none of them ever read by me, all of them now on a shelf, looking at me and making me feel guilty.
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Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world - like grace - and shines on everybody.
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Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
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I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.
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A child can educate just about anybody.
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People in cars cause accidents and accidents in cars cause people.
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Every show is your last show. That's my philosophy.
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Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
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You're such a big liar you gotta get your neighbor to call your dog.
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Face it: a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.
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I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.
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That's why God created marriage, so people wouldn't have to fight with strangers.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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Humor needs to come in under cover of darkness, in disguise, and surprise people.
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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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You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.
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