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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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... 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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Humor has to surprise us otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
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You now have learned enough to see That Cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types of mind. For some are sane and some are mad And some are good and some are bad And some are better, some are worse But all may be described in verse.
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Being an English major prepares you for impersonating authority.
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A child can educate just about anybody.
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Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there.
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No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs.
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People in cars cause accidents and accidents in cars cause people.
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Humor needs to come in under cover of darkness, in disguise, and surprise people.
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That's why God created marriage, so people wouldn't have to fight with strangers.
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It's confidence it has to be something good about getting old. One of the things is that you just don't stress about some stuff that made you so worried.
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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 girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it.
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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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God plays a lot of jokes on us to get our attention.
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Every show is your last show. That's my philosophy.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
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As a former English major, I am a sitting duck for Gift Books, and in the past few years I've gotten Dickens, Thackeray, Smollet, Richardson, Emerson, Keats, Boswell and the Brontes, all of them Great, none of them ever read by me, all of them now on a shelf, looking at me and making me feel guilty.
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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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