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We thank you [the soldiers recently returned from the middle east] for your service.

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Garrison Keillor
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 7
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Gary Edward Keillor
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Those people on daytime TV talking about how their parents never gave them the positive feedback they needed and that's why they shot them- those are not Minnesotans.
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Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.
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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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The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
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Face it: a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.
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Most men are prisoners at best, Who some strong habit every drag about Like chain and ball.
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You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.
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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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To Norwegians, the polka is a form of martial art.
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I write on a laptop, so it's impossible to count drafts anymore.
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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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God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
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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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IMPORTANT Book reading is a solitary and sedentary pursuit, and those who do are cautioned that a book should be used as an integral part of a well-rounded life, including a daily regimen of rigorous physical exercise, rewarding personal relationships, and sensible low-fat diet. A book should not be used a as a substitute or an excuse.
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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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