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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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To Norwegians, the polka is a form of martial art.
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The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness the superior man exults in his gloom.
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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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I write on a laptop, so it's impossible to count drafts anymore.
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God plays a lot of jokes on us to get our attention.
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One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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You don't have to justify a beautiful stroke of good luck. Accept it. Smile and say thank you.
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The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.
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Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
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Every show is your last show. That's my philosophy.
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Sex is not a mechanical act that fails for lack of technique, and it is not a performance by the male for the audience of the female it is a continuum of attraction that extends from the simplest conversation and the most innocent touching through the act of coitus.
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Where I come from, when a Catholic marries a Lutheran it is considered the first step on the road to Minneapolis.
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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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As for kissing on the first date, you should never date someone whom you would not wish to kiss immediately.
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