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If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?

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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I like to sing and it's just really fun to sing, and I don't get too much. And at my house I'm not allowed to because, you know, your children can't stand it when you sing at home.
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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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Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life.... Freedom demands structure.
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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 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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It is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake.
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Most men are prisoners at best, Who some strong habit every drag about Like chain and ball.
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March is the month God created to show people who don't drink what a hangover is like.
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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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In romance, as in life, you only learn when you're losing.
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Some of us have a relentless urge to attempt what we can never be good at and neglect our true calling.
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Sometimes you have to avoid mentioning things because people's feelings are tender.
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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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Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham.
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I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.
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A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists, a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in flames, most people would smile from pure reflex.
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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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