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Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.

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 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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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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That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant me like Reed Seymour couldn't figure this out for the life of them! Reed was ashamed of radio. ...radio was a cinch if you kept reaching down and grabbing up handfuls of the ordinary.
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It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
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There's so many people who move around our country and lose track of their own ancestry. It's nice to know where you come from.
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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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Childhood is the small town everyone came from.
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The majority of people who keel over dead at concerts are killed by a long trumpet passage.
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Humor needs to come in under cover of darkness, in disguise, and surprise people.
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I hiked around town, the air sweet and dry, and was sort of overwhelmed by the perfection of it -- the old courthouse, the train depot, Mount [Jumbo] and Mount Sentinel rising up, the neon bars, the funky festivity of a college town .
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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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In the end, all solutions are temporary.
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I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write in hotel rooms. I love hotel rooms. I just write wherever I am whenever I need to write.
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We come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.
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God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
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Secret of life is to go through something harrowing that doesnt kill you...and to love one woman for the rest of your life.
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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?
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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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They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
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