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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 book is a gift you can open again and again.
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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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Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.
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My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at that time.
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A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists, a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in flames, most people would smile from pure reflex.
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Possessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead.
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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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To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.
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Eating a little was like vomiting a little, just as bad as a lot.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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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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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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Childhood is the small town everyone came from.
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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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The socially redeeming aspect of golf lies in the vast number of lawyers and bankers and managers who play it, and when you think of the damage they would do if they were at the job instead, you can see why golf courses are a wise investment for any municipality.
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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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Some people have a love of their fellow man in their hearts, and others require a light anesthetic.
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That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant me like Reed Seymour couldn't figure this out for the life of them! Reed was ashamed of radio. ...radio was a cinch if you kept reaching down and grabbing up handfuls of the ordinary.
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Dogs don't lie and why should I? Strangers come they growl and bark, they know their loved ones in the dark, Now let me, by night or day, Be just as full of truth as they.
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The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness the superior man exults in his gloom.
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