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God plays a lot of jokes on us to get our attention.
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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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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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.
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You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.
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Childhood is the small town everyone came from.
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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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Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either
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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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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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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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To your left is the marina where several senior cabinet officials keep luxury yachts for weekend cruises on the Potomac. Some of these ships are up to 100 feet in length the Presidential yacht is over 200 feet in length, and can remain submerged for up to 3 weeks.
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The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
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You're such a big liar you gotta get your neighbor to call your dog.
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I usually don't work with other people I do the whole show myself.
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A child can educate just about anybody.
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Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
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Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life.... Freedom demands structure.
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There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.
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Beauty isn't worth thinking about what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head. ~Garrison Keillor
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