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People in cars cause accidents and accidents in cars cause people.
Garrison Keillor
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Garrison Keillor
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 7
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In the end, all solutions are temporary.
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Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
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Humor has to surprise us otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
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Take care of your friends. Because there will come a time when you'll be no good to anyone, and the only reason for people to talk to you will be sheer habit.
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Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either
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Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life.... Freedom demands structure.
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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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Ha! Easy for nuns to talk about giving up things. That's what they do for a living.
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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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You don't want to get that sort of sound in your writing that boing that gives you away.
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