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I loved feeling special. I hated feeling special.

Garrison Keillor

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Garrison Keillor
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 7
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Anoka
Minnesota
Gary Edward Keillor
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Eating a little was like vomiting a little, just as bad as a lot.
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I feel it's so hard for young actors It's a different world that they're coming up in there's so much money to be made off of their personal lives, and people are bound and determined to make that money.
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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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Have interesting failures.... If you need to have a personal crisis have it now. Don't wait until midlife, when it will take longer to resolve.... Don't pity yourselves. Lighten up. Seek people with a sense of humor. Avoid humorless people-and do not marry one, for God's sake.
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I remember when I switched from Christmas to sex as the secret of happiness.
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The problem with paradise is that it's temporary: You don't belong here and the neighbors are nobody you care to know, so it's only blissful for a week or so.
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Pumpkin pie is a living symbol of mediocrity. The best pumpkin pie you ever ate wasn't all that much different from the worst pumpkin pie you ever ate.
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I have taken so many wrong turns and been so careless with precious things and managed to lose, or break, or leave out in the rain so much that I loved.
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One day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned by Lutheran Brotherhood and must re negotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who dont understand why anyone would pay more than $120.00 for a suit.
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Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.
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A cruise ship is a floating town of lazy people.
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It is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake.
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Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.
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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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