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Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.
Garrison Keillor
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Garrison Keillor
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 7
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Gary Edward Keillor
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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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To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.
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I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.
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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 love rhymes I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph.
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Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but the older metaphor of farming (life as hard labor that is subject to weather and quirks of blind fate and may return no reward whatsoever and don't be surprised) is still in our blood.
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Humor is not about problems with airline luggage handlers. It's about our lives in America and it's about the ends of our lives and it's about everything that happens after that and everything that happened before.
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As for kissing on the first date, you should never date someone whom you would not wish to kiss immediately.
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There's so many people who move around our country and lose track of their own ancestry. It's nice to know where you come from.
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I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us.
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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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... 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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I write on a laptop, so it's impossible to count drafts anymore.
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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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If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?
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Ha! Easy for nuns to talk about giving up things. That's what they do for a living.
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Being an English major prepares you for impersonating authority.
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There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.
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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.
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A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
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