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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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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 don't associate work with feelings of satisfaction. Rather, guilt, frustration, and resentment of people who write better than I do.
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We all know you can get AIDS from sex, but did you know that you can get sex from aides?
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I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.
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It is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake.
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As for kissing on the first date, you should never date someone whom you would not wish to kiss immediately.
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I've seen the truth, and it makes no sense.
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You now have learned enough to see That Cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types of mind. For some are sane and some are mad And some are good and some are bad And some are better, some are worse — But all may be described in verse.
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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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Your car, comfort though it be, this little den and dining room on wheels, is a prison that deadens your senses, and to feel wholly alive you must go for a walk.
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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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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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No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs.
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Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.
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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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Childhood is the small town everyone came from.
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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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The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness the superior man exults in his gloom.
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I usually don't work with other people I do the whole show myself.
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You don't want to get that sort of sound in your writing that boing that gives you away.
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