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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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Eating a little was like vomiting a little, just as bad as a lot.
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The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness the superior man exults in his gloom.
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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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We all know you can get AIDS from sex, but did you know that you can get sex from aides?
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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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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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A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.
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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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I write on a laptop, so it's impossible to count drafts anymore.
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I like to sing and it's just really fun to sing, and I don't get too much. And at my house I'm not allowed to because, you know, your children can't stand it when you sing at home.
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Men peak at age nineteen and go downhill.
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I usually don't work with other people I do the whole show myself.
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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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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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Pumpkin pie is a living symbol of mediocrity. The best pumpkin pie you ever ate wasn't all that much different from the worst pumpkin pie you ever ate.
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God plays a lot of jokes on us to get our attention.
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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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