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Humor needs to come in under cover of darkness, in disguise, and surprise people.

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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... and people are to march around the church to commemorate the event, Palm Sunday, when Jesus rode into Jerusalem and was greeted with applause and with palms. People thought he had come to overthrow the Romans, but ... no ... he had come to change THEM ... and that led to things turning bad.
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Nothing that readers say or do strikes me as a nuisance. Anyone who cracks open a book of mine is, to me, a gem.
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That's why God created marriage, so people wouldn't have to fight with strangers.
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When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.
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The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness the superior man exults in his gloom.
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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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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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She gave him such a look... Man oh man, if looks could kill. That one might have totalled a city block.
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Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.
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Childhood is the small town everyone came from.
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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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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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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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Some of us have a relentless urge to attempt what we can never be good at and neglect our true calling.
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One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.
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If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?
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When the country goes temporarily to the dogs, cats must learn to be circumspect, walk on fences, sleep in trees, and have faith that all this woofing is not the last word.
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Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.
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Possessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead.
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I remember when I switched from Christmas to sex as the secret of happiness.
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