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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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Minnesota is a state of public-spirited and polite people, where you can get a good cappucino and eat Thai food and find any book you want and yet live on a quiet tree-lined street with a backyard and send your kids to public school. When a state this good hits the jackpot, it can only be an inspiration to everybody.
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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 usually don't work with other people I do the whole show myself.
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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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People always are encouraging about a terrible loss, so that sometimes the loser would like to strangle them.
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A good friend is a person who thinks you're one of the good eggs, even if he knows you're a little cracked.
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That's why God created marriage, so people wouldn't have to fight with strangers.
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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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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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Your car, comfort though it be, this little den and dining room on wheels, is a prison that deadens your senses, and to feel wholly alive you must go for a walk.
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Face it: a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.
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We thank you [the soldiers recently returned from the middle east] for your service.
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In the end, all solutions are temporary.
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No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs.
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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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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.
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God plays a lot of jokes on us to get our attention.
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We all know you can get AIDS from sex, but did you know that you can get sex from aides?
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My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at that time.
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