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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.
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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Where I come from, when a Catholic marries a Lutheran it is considered the first step on the road to Minneapolis.
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In the end, all solutions are temporary.
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Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life.... Freedom demands structure.
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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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It is more worthy in the eyes of God . . . if a writer makes three pages sharp and funny about the lives of geese than to make three hundred fat and flabby about God or the American people.
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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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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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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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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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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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In romance, as in life, you only learn when you're losing.
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Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.
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Love has the power to rescue us and not let go, otherwise it isn't love
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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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In the end, all solutions are temporary.
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