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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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Garrison Keillor
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 7
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Gary Edward Keillor
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I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.
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That's why God created marriage, so people wouldn't have to fight with strangers.
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You're such a big liar you gotta get your neighbor to call your dog.
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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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When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.
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... I never was one to get upset about a few scratches on a motor vehicle, it is meant to be used, not saved.
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Humor needs to come in under cover of darkness, in disguise, and surprise people.
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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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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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Have interesting failures.... If you need to have a personal crisis have it now. Don't wait until midlife, when it will take longer to resolve.... Don't pity yourselves. Lighten up. Seek people with a sense of humor. Avoid humorless people-and do not marry one, for God's sake.
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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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Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there.
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Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.
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We come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.
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For me, the monologue was the favorite thing I had done in radio. It was based on writing, but in the end it was radio, it was standing up and leaning forward into the dark and talking, letting words come out of you.
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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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We English majors...need to promote public libraries as a tool in the war against terror. How many readers of Edith Wharton have engaged in terroristic acts? I challenge you to name one...Do we need to wait until our cities lie in smoking ruins before we wake up to the fact that a first-class public library is a vital link in national defense?
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Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life.... Freedom demands structure.
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