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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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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I remember when I switched from Christmas to sex as the secret of happiness.
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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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I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us.
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The socially redeeming aspect of golf lies in the vast number of lawyers and bankers and managers who play it, and when you think of the damage they would do if they were at the job instead, you can see why golf courses are a wise investment for any municipality.
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Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.
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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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That's why God created marriage, so people wouldn't have to fight with strangers.
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Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either
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I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.
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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.
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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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My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at that time.
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No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs.
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It's confidence it has to be something good about getting old. One of the things is that you just don't stress about some stuff that made you so worried.
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A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
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The great unrequited love tears open your heart to the beauty of the world, its small rivers and upland meadows. It also makes you kinder to the next hundred thousand persons who cross your path.
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Being an English major prepares you for impersonating authority.
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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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Childhood is the small town everyone came from.
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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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