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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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Don't pour the oil directly into my navel, pour it on my sternum and let it run down into my navel, you ignorant peasant.
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Minnesota is a state of public-spirited and polite people, where you can get a good cappucino and eat Thai food and find any book you want and yet live on a quiet tree-lined street with a backyard and send your kids to public school. When a state this good hits the jackpot, it can only be an inspiration to everybody.
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I want to resume the life of a shy person.
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When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.
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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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Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham.
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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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Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.
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People always are encouraging about a terrible loss, so that sometimes the loser would like to strangle them.
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Being an English major prepares you for impersonating authority.
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