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Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world - like grace - and shines on everybody.
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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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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Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
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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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Ha! Easy for nuns to talk about giving up things. That's what they do for a living.
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I want to resume the life of a shy person.
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People in cars cause accidents and accidents in cars cause people.
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Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham.
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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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When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.
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They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
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In the end, all solutions are temporary.
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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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Humor needs to come in under cover of darkness, in disguise, and surprise people.
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Sometimes you have to avoid mentioning things because people's feelings are tender.
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Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either
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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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If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?
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The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness the superior man exults in his gloom.
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