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I want to resume the life of a shy person.

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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God plays a lot of jokes on us to get our attention.
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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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English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say.
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To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.
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One day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned by Lutheran Brotherhood and must re negotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who dont understand why anyone would pay more than $120.00 for a suit.
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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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Dogs don't lie and why should I? Strangers come they growl and bark, they know their loved ones in the dark, Now let me, by night or day, Be just as full of truth as they.
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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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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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You don't want to get that sort of sound in your writing that boing that gives you away.
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The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
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..people (in Minnesota) avoid stupidity when possible, not wanting to be a $10 haircut on a 50 cent head.
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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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Spending time in a church does not make you religious, any more than spending time in a garage makes you a car.
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In the end, all solutions are temporary.
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In Lake Wobegon, we don't forget mistakes.
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Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.
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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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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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