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Humor has to surprise us otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
Garrison Keillor
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Garrison Keillor
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 7
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Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but the older metaphor of farming (life as hard labor that is subject to weather and quirks of blind fate and may return no reward whatsoever and don't be surprised) is still in our blood.
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Most men are prisoners at best, Who some strong habit every drag about Like chain and ball.
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Roy Blount's stuff makes me laugh so hard, sometimes I have to go sit in a room and shut the door
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I've seen the truth, and it makes no sense.
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In the end, all solutions are temporary.
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I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better.
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One day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned by Lutheran Brotherhood and must re negotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who dont understand why anyone would pay more than $120.00 for a suit.
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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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A child can educate just about anybody.
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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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In romance, as in life, you only learn when you're losing.
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I loved feeling special. I hated feeling special.
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..people (in Minnesota) avoid stupidity when possible, not wanting to be a $10 haircut on a 50 cent head.
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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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Every show is your last show. That's my philosophy.
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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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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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I feel it's so hard for young actors It's a different world that they're coming up in there's so much money to be made off of their personal lives, and people are bound and determined to make that money.
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For me, the monologue was the favorite thing I had done in radio. It was based on writing, but in the end it was radio, it was standing up and leaning forward into the dark and talking, letting words come out of you.
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