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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.

Garrison Keillor

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Garrison Keillor
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 7
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Sex is not a mechanical act that fails for lack of technique, and it is not a performance by the male for the audience of the female it is a continuum of attraction that extends from the simplest conversation and the most innocent touching through the act of coitus.
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Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten is Minnesota and North Dakota.
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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 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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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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You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.
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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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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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A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
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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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When the country goes temporarily to the dogs, cats must learn to be circumspect, walk on fences, sleep in trees, and have faith that all this woofing is not the last word.
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English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say.
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I've seen the truth, and it makes no sense.
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I want to resume the life of a shy person.
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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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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.
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Writing is the main gig and teaching and performing are sidelines, an excuse for not writing more. Working on a novel and on an opera make me seriously want to retire and find a volunteer job as a docent at the zoo explaining to schoolchildren where frogs go in the winter.
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It's confidence it has to be something good about getting old. One of the things is that you just don't stress about some stuff that made you so worried.
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When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.
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Love has the power to rescue us and not let go, otherwise it isn't love
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