Garrison Keillor Quotes

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  Republicans: The No.1 reason the rest of the world thinks we’re deaf, dumb and dangerous.

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  Tags in Republicans, Reason
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  Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.

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  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Humour, Christian

• I look like a tree toad who was changed into a boy but not completely.

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• It’s a play that after you’ve been there for a short while, you wonder how long this is going to take.

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• March is the month that God designed to show those who don’t drink what a hangover is like.

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• Public radio is a ghetto of good taste.

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• Peanut butter has survived everything that has been done to improve it.

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

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Self, Believe, Reality
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  A book is a gift you can open again and again.

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  Tags in Book, Again, Books

• Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

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  Topics in Inspirational, Luck

  Tags in Yourself

• 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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  Tags in Writing

• 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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  Topics in God, Life

  Tags in Thank You

• Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

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  Topics in Humor, Nature

  Tags in Cat, Function
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  Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

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  Topics in God, Life

  Tags in Thankful

• 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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• A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

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  Topics in Joy

  Tags in Newspaper

• A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table – There’s nothing wrong with them, but it’s hard to stop thinking about it.

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  Tags in Girl, Thinking

• Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

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  Tags in People, Gentle

• God writes a lot of comedy… the trouble is, he’s stuck with so many bad actors who don’t know how to play funny.

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  Topics in God

  Tags in Comedy

• I’m not busy… a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn’t think my schedule looked so busy.

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  Tags in Self, Busy, Schedule

Garrison Keillor (35)

Birth:	7th August, 1942
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Radio Personality

About

Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor was born in Anoka, Minnesota, USA. He is an American author and radio personality. He is known as host of the Minnesota Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion. He has written the screenplay for the 2006 movie A Prairie Home Companion. He has written several books include: Lake Wobegon Days(novel), Pontoon(novel), Wobegon boy(novel), WLT: A Radio Romance(novel), Liberty(novel), The Keillor Reader, Leaving Home, The Book of Guys, Homegrown Democrat, Life Among the Lutherans, A Christmas Blizzard, Happy to be Here, and Good Poems for Hard Times. He earned his bachelor's degree in English from the University of Minnesota in 1966.

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