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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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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 felt bad for that world that we have given a generation of kids.
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That's why God created marriage, so people wouldn't have to fight with strangers.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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