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One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.
Garrison Keillor
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Garrison Keillor
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 7
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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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As for family values, they are whatever they are - some families are tight, others are blown away like dandelion puffs. A main value in Minnesota is still: don't waste my time, don't B.S. me, I wasn't born yesterday.
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That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant me like Reed Seymour couldn't figure this out for the life of them! Reed was ashamed of radio. ...radio was a cinch if you kept reaching down and grabbing up handfuls of the ordinary.
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Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world - like grace - and shines on everybody.
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A cruise ship is a floating town of lazy people.
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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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Secret of life is to go through something harrowing that doesnt kill you...and to love one woman for the rest of your life.
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Roy Blount's stuff makes me laugh so hard, sometimes I have to go sit in a room and shut the door
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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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Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.
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That's why God created marriage, so people wouldn't have to fight with strangers.
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I felt bad for that world that we have given a generation of kids.
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When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.
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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 reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.
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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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