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In Lake Wobegon, we don't forget mistakes.

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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Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.
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... I never was one to get upset about a few scratches on a motor vehicle, it is meant to be used, not saved.
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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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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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I think that you are only obliged to be a humorist from the age of 18 until you turn 30. Past the age of 30 I don't think there is any obligation to be clever at all.
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Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement, and now it is a problem to be overcome.
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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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Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
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Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there.
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Secret of life is to go through something harrowing that doesnt kill you...and to love one woman for the rest of your life.
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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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Sometimes you have to avoid mentioning things because people's feelings are tender.
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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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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.
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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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