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Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.
Garrison Keillor
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Garrison Keillor
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 7
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I was brought up imagining that cream rises to the top, merit wins out, the race is to the swift and riches to men of understanding, but it ain't necessarily so. The swift stand a better chance if they are also beautiful.
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I think there's a lot of power in listening to one person talking to you. And this should never be underestimated.One person sitting and talking to you and, you're pulled in, in ways that technology and art and all cannot.
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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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Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life.... Freedom demands structure.
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Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards, and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.
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Eating a little was like vomiting a little, just as bad as a lot.
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Scripture doesn't promise that God will remove temptation, only that you'll be given strength to withstand it.
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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 problem with paradise is that it's temporary: You don't belong here and the neighbors are nobody you care to know, so it's only blissful for a week or so.
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Writing is the main gig and teaching and performing are sidelines, an excuse for not writing more. Working on a novel and on an opera make me seriously want to retire and find a volunteer job as a docent at the zoo explaining to schoolchildren where frogs go in the winter.
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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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In Lake Wobegon, we don't forget mistakes.
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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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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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It is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake.
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Liberalism is dead, so dead that Democrats have all become moderate Republicans, and the heavy hand of Big Government is now limp and damp and trembly.
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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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Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.
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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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