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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.

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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Enough. Man is capable of reform once presented with the facts, and the fact is that bottling water and shipping it is a big waste of fuel, so stop already.
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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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Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
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If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?
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That's why God created marriage, so people wouldn't have to fight with strangers.
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I usually don't work with other people I do the whole show myself.
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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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I felt bad for that world that we have given a generation of kids.
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A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.
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The greatness of America is that it produces exuberant geniuses like Louis Armstrong and Fred Astaire and Leonard Bernstein. We are meant to be a jazzy people who talk big and jump on the table and dance we aren't supposed to be dopey and glum and brood over old injuries.
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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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I love rhymes I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph.
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In the end, all solutions are temporary.
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Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.
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In romance, as in life, you only learn when you're losing.
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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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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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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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Spending time in a church does not make you religious, any more than spending time in a garage makes you a car.
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