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When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.

Garrison Keillor

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Garrison Keillor
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 7
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Comedian
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Anoka
Minnesota
Gary Edward Keillor
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I think that you are only obliged to be a humorist from the age of 18 until you turn 30. Past the age of 30 I don't think there is any obligation to be clever at all.
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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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You don't want to get that sort of sound in your writing that boing that gives you away.
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Dogs don't lie and why should I? Strangers come they growl and bark, they know their loved ones in the dark, Now let me, by night or day, Be just as full of truth as they.
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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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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.
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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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Humor is not about problems with airline luggage handlers. It's about our lives in America and it's about the ends of our lives and it's about everything that happens after that and everything that happened before.
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Scripture doesn't promise that God will remove temptation, only that you'll be given strength to withstand it.
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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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As a former English major, I am a sitting duck for Gift Books, and in the past few years I've gotten Dickens, Thackeray, Smollet, Richardson, Emerson, Keats, Boswell and the Brontes, all of them Great, none of them ever read by me, all of them now on a shelf, looking at me and making me feel guilty.
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English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say.
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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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Face it: a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.
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A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it.
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Where I come from, when a Catholic marries a Lutheran it is considered the first step on the road to Minneapolis.
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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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The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.
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You don't have to justify a beautiful stroke of good luck. Accept it. Smile and say thank you.
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