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You don't want to get that sort of sound in your writing that boing that gives you away.

Garrison Keillor

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Garrison Keillor
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 7
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Every show is your last show. That's my philosophy.
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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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Winter: It's not just a season, it's who we are.
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I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.
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Men peak at age nineteen and go downhill.
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A child can educate just about anybody.
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Beauty isn't worth thinking about what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head. ~Garrison Keillor
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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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God plays a lot of jokes on us to get our attention.
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Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.
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The great unrequited love tears open your heart to the beauty of the world, its small rivers and upland meadows. It also makes you kinder to the next hundred thousand persons who cross your path.
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People always are encouraging about a terrible loss, so that sometimes the loser would like to strangle them.
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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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