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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. "

Garrison Keillor

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

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" I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time. "

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

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" I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me. "

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" I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.' "

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" Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average. "

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" The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage. "

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

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

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" I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places. "

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

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" My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer. "

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" When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't. "

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" The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose. "

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" Cursing is highly effective in person - someone kicks his car in rage, forgetting he's wearing flip-flops, flames pour from his mouth, and it's impressive. But you see it in print, and it's just ugly. "

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" 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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" Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. "

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" I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine. "

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" Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted. "

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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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" 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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" 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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