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It is more worthy in the eyes of God . . . if a writer makes three pages sharp and funny about the lives of geese than to make three hundred fat and flabby about God or the American people.

Garrison Keillor

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Garrison Keillor
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 7
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I hiked around town, the air sweet and dry, and was sort of overwhelmed by the perfection of it -- the old courthouse, the train depot, Mount [Jumbo] and Mount Sentinel rising up, the neon bars, the funky festivity of a college town .
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No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs.
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I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.
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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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People in cars cause accidents and accidents in cars cause people.
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The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness the superior man exults in his gloom.
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Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten is Minnesota and North Dakota.
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She gave him such a look... Man oh man, if looks could kill. That one might have totalled a city block.
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A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists, a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in flames, most people would smile from pure reflex.
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Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.
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Before the world was made, when it was only darkness and mist and waters, God was well aware of Lake Wobegon, my family, our house, and He had me all sketched out down to what size my feet would be (big), which bike I would ride (Schwinn), and the five ears of corn I'd eat for supper that night.
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You're such a big liar you gotta get your neighbor to call your dog.
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You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.
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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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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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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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This is the big reason most humorists fail. Drunks don't read books.
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A cruise ship is a floating town of lazy people.
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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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