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Every show is your last show. That's my philosophy.
Garrison Keillor
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Garrison Keillor
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 7
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Sometimes you have to avoid mentioning things because people's feelings are tender.
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Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world - like grace - and shines on everybody.
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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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The majority of people who keel over dead at concerts are killed by a long trumpet passage.
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Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten is Minnesota and North Dakota.
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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 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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Winter: It's not just a season, it's who we are.
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Liberalism is dead, so dead that Democrats have all become moderate Republicans, and the heavy hand of Big Government is now limp and damp and trembly.
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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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I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.
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Being rich and thin isn't everything.
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