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Men peak at age nineteen and go downhill.

Garrison Keillor

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Garrison Keillor
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 7
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Anoka
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Gary Edward Keillor
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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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Those people on daytime TV talking about how their parents never gave them the positive feedback they needed and that's why they shot them- those are not Minnesotans.
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Enough. Man is capable of reform once presented with the facts, and the fact is that bottling water and shipping it is a big waste of fuel, so stop already.
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I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us.
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... and people are to march around the church to commemorate the event, Palm Sunday, when Jesus rode into Jerusalem and was greeted with applause and with palms. People thought he had come to overthrow the Romans, but ... no ... he had come to change THEM ... and that led to things turning bad.
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In the end, all solutions are temporary.
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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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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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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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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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God plays a lot of jokes on us to get our attention.
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...opening up a newspaper is the key to looking classy and smart. Never mind the bronze-plated stuff about the role of the press in a democracy - a newspaper, kiddo, is about Style.
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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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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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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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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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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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I loved feeling special. I hated feeling special.
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Childhood is the small town everyone came from.
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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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