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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.

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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It is more worthy in the eyes of God . . . if a writer makes three pages sharp and funny about the lives of geese than to make three hundred fat and flabby about God or the American people.
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I hiked around town, the air sweet and dry, and was sort of overwhelmed by the perfection of it -- the old courthouse, the train depot, Mount [Jumbo] and Mount Sentinel rising up, the neon bars, the funky festivity of a college town .
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Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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I love rhymes I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph.
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Roy Blount's stuff makes me laugh so hard, sometimes I have to go sit in a room and shut the door
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A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.
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There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.
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If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?
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...opening up a newspaper is the key to looking classy and smart. Never mind the bronze-plated stuff about the role of the press in a democracy - a newspaper, kiddo, is about Style.
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Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world - like grace - and shines on everybody.
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A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
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To Norwegians, the polka is a form of martial art.
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Dogs don't lie and why should I? Strangers come they growl and bark, they know their loved ones in the dark, Now let me, by night or day, Be just as full of truth as they.
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We thank you [the soldiers recently returned from the middle east] for your service.
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Winter: It's not just a season, it's who we are.
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I was brought up imagining that cream rises to the top, merit wins out, the race is to the swift and riches to men of understanding, but it ain't necessarily so. The swift stand a better chance if they are also beautiful.
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The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness the superior man exults in his gloom.
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I loved feeling special. I hated feeling special.
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Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.
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