Garrison Keillor Quotes - Page 6

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• As a former English major, I am a sitting duck for Gift Books, and in the past few years I've gotten Dickens, Thackeray, Smollet, Richardson, Emerson, Keats, Boswell and the Brontes, all of them Great, none of them ever read by me, all of them now on a shelf, looking at me and making me feel guilty.

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  Book, Past, Years

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• Ralph Stanley is like an uncle to us and now that all my uncles are gone, Ralph's singing is even more precious. This album of classic folk songs is one of his best.

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  Song, Uncles, Singing

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• Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.

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  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Good Life

  "Leaving Home". Book by Garrison Keillor, 1987.

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• As for family values, they are whatever they are - some families are tight, others are blown away like dandelion puffs. A main value in Minnesota is still: don't waste my time, don't B.S. me, I wasn't born yesterday.

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  Yesterday, Puff, Minnesota

  Source: jonathanlowe.wordpress.com

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• Sing your song; don't let the bastards get you down.

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  Song, Entrepreneur, Best Business

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• Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.

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  Lakes, Littles, Towns

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• This is the big reason most humorists fail. Drunks don't read books.

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  Book, Failing, Reason

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• Men peak at age nineteen and go downhill.

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  Men, Age, Nineteen

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

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• Winter: It's not just a season, it's who we are.

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  Winter, Who We Are, Seasons

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• For me, the monologue was the favorite thing I had done in radio. It was based on writing, but in the end it was radio, it was standing up and leaning forward into the dark and talking, letting words come out of you.

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  Writing, Dark, Talking

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• Those people on daytime TV talking about how their parents never gave them the positive feedback they needed and that's why they shot them- those are not Minnesotans.

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  Talking, People, Parent

  Garrison Keillor (2004). “Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America”, p.9, Penguin

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• In romance, as in life, you only learn when you're losing.

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  Romance, Losing

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• You're such a big liar you gotta get your neighbor to call your dog.

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  Dog, Liars, Neighbor

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Lake Wobegon Days”, p.163, Penguin

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• Every show is your last show. That's my philosophy.

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  Meaningful, Philosophy, Lasts

  "A Prairie Home Companion". www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.

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  Surprise, Humorists

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• Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it.

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  Humor, Length, Prove It

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “We Are Still Married: Stories and Letters”, p.14, Penguin

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• The French have a new president, the British will soon have a new P.M., and we envy them as we endure the endless wait for this small dim man to go back to Texas and resume his life.

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  Men, Texas, Envy

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• Give guilt - the gift that lasts forever.

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  Giving, Forever, Guilt

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• Vacation cruises are advertised as luxurious journeys to exotic places, but a chief pleasure is the reading of books ... . On steamer chairs topside or poolside, in the lounges, everywhere you see men and women with their noses in books, devouring them for hours.

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  Book, Reading, Journey

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• Face it: a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.

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  Reality, Approval Rating, Faces

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• To Norwegians, the polka is a form of martial art.

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  Art, Form, Polka

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• I don't want them to be told to remember me.

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  Life And Death, Want, Remember

  "A Prairie Home Companion". www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

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  Time, Eye, Reality

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• Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either

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  Mother, Self, Nostalgia

  Garrison Keillor (2014). “The Keillor Reader”, p.28, Penguin

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• The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.

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  Funny, Lines

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “We Are Still Married: Stories and Letters”, p.14, Penguin

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