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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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Gary Edward Keillor
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A good friend is a person who thinks you're one of the good eggs, even if he knows you're a little cracked.
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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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Men peak at age nineteen and go downhill.
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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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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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Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.
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I write on a laptop, so it's impossible to count drafts anymore.
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There's so many people who move around our country and lose track of their own ancestry. It's nice to know where you come from.
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No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs.
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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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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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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 greatness of America is that it produces exuberant geniuses like Louis Armstrong and Fred Astaire and Leonard Bernstein. We are meant to be a jazzy people who talk big and jump on the table and dance we aren't supposed to be dopey and glum and brood over old injuries.
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I loved feeling special. I hated feeling special.
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I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.
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To your left is the marina where several senior cabinet officials keep luxury yachts for weekend cruises on the Potomac. Some of these ships are up to 100 feet in length the Presidential yacht is over 200 feet in length, and can remain submerged for up to 3 weeks.
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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.
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