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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.

Garrison Keillor

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Garrison Keillor
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 7
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Anoka
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Gary Edward Keillor
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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 usually don't work with other people I do the whole show myself.
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In romance, as in life, you only learn when you're losing.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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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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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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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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A cruise ship is a floating town of lazy people.
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Enough. Man is capable of reform once presented with the facts, and the fact is that bottling water and shipping it is a big waste of fuel, so stop already.
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