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Spending time in a church does not make you religious, any more than spending time in a garage makes you a car.

Garrison Keillor

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Garrison Keillor
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 7
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The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
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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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We English majors...need to promote public libraries as a tool in the war against terror. How many readers of Edith Wharton have engaged in terroristic acts? I challenge you to name one...Do we need to wait until our cities lie in smoking ruins before we wake up to the fact that a first-class public library is a vital link in national defense?
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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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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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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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Being rich and thin isn't everything.
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Childhood is the small town everyone came from.
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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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Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there.
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Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.
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It is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake.
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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.
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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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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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