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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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  Book, Reading, Exercise

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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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  Jesus, Earth, Minnesota

  "When I’m 64". www.salon.com. August 09, 2006.

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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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  Home, Able, Noon

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Lake Wobegon Days”, p.83, Penguin

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• It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.

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  Air, Luxury, Empires

  "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations". Book by James B. Simpson, p. 211, 1988.

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• I want to resume the life of a shy person.

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  Shy, Want, Resumes

  "A Prairie Home Companion", February 14, 1987.

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• When writing loses touch with the beautiful surface of the world, it loses its way. You always want to be in touch with how things look and what people say and what they call their dogs.

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  Beautiful, Dog, Writing

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• I am a cheerful man, even in the dark, and it's all thanks to a good Lutheran mother. . . . Mother was well composed, a true Lutheran, and taught me to Cheer up, Make yourself useful, Mind your manners, and above all, Don't feel sorry for yourself.

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  Mother, Cheer, Sorry

  Garrison Keillor (1998). “Wobegon Boy”, p.9, Penguin

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• Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life.... Freedom demands structure.

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  Freedom, Mean, Demand

  Garrison Keillor (2009). “Liberty: A Novel of Lake Wobegon”, p.24, Faber & Faber

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• Sex is not a mechanical act that fails for lack of technique, and it is not a performance by the male for the audience of the female; it is a continuum of attraction that extends from the simplest conversation and the most innocent touching through the act of coitus.

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  Sex, Touching, Technique

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• TV news is as bloody as Shakespeare but without the intelligence and the poetry. If you watch television news you know less about the world than if you drank gin out of a bottle

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  Tv News, Watches, Bottles

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• When you're a little kid, your heart is open and tender and a harsh word can go straight in and become part of your life.

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  Heart, Kids, Littles

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• When it comes to finding available men in Minnesota, the odds are good, but the goods are odd.

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  Men, Odds, Minnesota

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• Have interesting failures.... If you need to have a personal crisis have it now. Don't wait until midlife, when it will take longer to resolve.... Don't pity yourselves. Lighten up. Seek people with a sense of humor. Avoid humorless people-and do not marry one, for God's sake.

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  Interesting, People, Waiting

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• I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

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  Fake People, Believe, Eye

  "Precision Shooting : The Trapshooter's Bible‎". Book by James Russell, 1998.

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• When the New Yorker turned down work, they turned it down in such an elaborately gentlemanly way making apologies for their own shortsightedness. Undoubtedly it was their fault but somehow for some reason this fell short of the remarkably high standard that you by your own work have set for yourself. They had a way of rejecting my work that made me feel sorry for them somehow.

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  Sorry, Apology, Way

  "Humor has to surprise us, otherwise it isn't funny". Interview with George Plimpton, blankonblank.org. November 28, 1994.

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• A compassionate conservative is someone who electrocutes juveniles but lets them have a last 'make a wish'.

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  Wish, Lasts, Conservative

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• Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.

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  Children, Dad, Father

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Lake Wobegon Days”, p.128, Penguin

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• You don't have to justify a beautiful stroke of good luck. Accept it. Smile and say thank you.

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  Beautiful, Good Luck, Accepting

  Garrison Keillor (2009). “Pilgrims: A Lake Wobegon Romance”, p.52, Penguin

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• Adolescence hits boys harder than it does girls. Girls bleed a little and their breasts pop out, big deal, but adolescence lands on a guy with both feet. . . . Your body is engulfed by chemicals of rage and despair, you pound, you shriek, you batter your head against the trees. You come away wounded, feeling that life is unknowable, can never be understood, only endured and sometimes cheated.

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  Girl, Boys, Feet

  Garrison Keillor (1994). “The Book of Guys: Stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the words down, trying to get them right, operating by some inner sense of pitch and proportion, and from time to time, we stick the stuff in an envelope and ship it to an editor.

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  Writing, Thinking, Editors

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• God is a great humorist. He just has a slow audience to work with.

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  Audience, Humorists

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• Ha! Easy for nuns to talk about giving up things. That's what they do for a living.

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  Giving Up, Giving, Easy

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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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  Secret, Rest Of Your Life, Life Is

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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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  Writing, Ironic, Young Writers

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• An interesting thing about New York City is that the subways run through the sewers.

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  Running, New York, Cities

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