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Garrison Keillor

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Garrison Keillor
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 7
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Minnesota
Gary Edward Keillor
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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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..people (in Minnesota) avoid stupidity when possible, not wanting to be a $10 haircut on a 50 cent head.
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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.
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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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IMPORTANT Book reading is a solitary and sedentary pursuit, and those who do are cautioned that a book should be used as an integral part of a well-rounded life, including a daily regimen of rigorous physical exercise, rewarding personal relationships, and sensible low-fat diet. A book should not be used a as a substitute or an excuse.
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Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.
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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.
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This is the big reason most humorists fail. Drunks don't read books.
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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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It is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake.
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Sometimes you have to avoid mentioning things because people's feelings are tender.
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We thank you [the soldiers recently returned from the middle east] for your service.
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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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Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
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A cruise ship is a floating town of lazy people.
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Those people on daytime TV talking about how their parents never gave them the positive feedback they needed and that's why they shot them- those are not Minnesotans.
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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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Childhood is the small town everyone came from.
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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.
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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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