Garrison Keillor Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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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“You've got work to do. Don't put this off. And don't take the long view, here. You know? Life is today and tomorrow and- and if you're lucky, next week.”
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“Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.”
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“I think there's a lot of power in listening to one person talking to you. And this should never be underestimated.One person sitting and talking to you and, you're pulled in, in ways that technology and art and all cannot.”
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“Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.”
-- Garrison KeillorSource : Garrison Keillor (1990). “Leaving Home”, p.17, Penguin
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“It was a pleasure to have somebody else be the boss. It wouldn't have been nearly as much fun any other way. He's been around and made a lot of movies and he's a great straightforward person to work for. And it was a pleasure to see other people to pick up characters that you've sketched out loosely on paper and make them into something fascinating.”
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“Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.”
-- Garrison KeillorSource : Traditional sign-off for "The Writer's Almanac" radio show, 1993 - 2017.
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“I felt bad for that world that we have given a generation of kids.”
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“What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith rules through ordinary things: through cooking and small talk, through storytelling, making love, fishing, tending animals and sweet corn and flowers, through sports, music, and books, raising kids-all the places where the gravy soaks in and grace shines through. Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. Lacking any other purpose in life, it would be good enough to live for their sake.”
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“I feel it's so hard for young actors; It's a different world that they're coming up in; there's so much money to be made off of their personal lives, and people are bound and determined to make that money.”
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“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.”
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“It's confidence; it has to be something good about getting old. One of the things is that you just don't stress about some stuff that made you so worried.”
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“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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“I like to sing and it's just really fun to sing, and I don't get too much. And at my house I'm not allowed to because, you know, your children can't stand it when you sing at home.”
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“A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
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“I write on a laptop, so it's impossible to count drafts anymore.”
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“English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say.”
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“I usually don't work with other people; I do the whole show myself.”
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“When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.”
-- Garrison KeillorSource : Garrison Keillor (2004). “Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America”, p.85, Penguin
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“Sometimes you have to avoid mentioning things because people's feelings are tender.”
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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.”
-- Garrison KeillorSource : Garrison Keillor (1990). “Leaving Home”, p.23, Penguin
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“Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.”
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“We live a pleasant life shopping at the Food Shoppe . . . taking the kids to the Weinery-Beanery, . . . and eating bran flakes . .. and then, with no warning, we wake up one morning stricken with middle age, full of loneliness, dumb, in pain. Our work is useless, our vocation is lost, and nobody cares about us at all. This is not bearable. In despair, we go do something spectacularly dumb, like run away with Amber the cocktail waitress, and suddenly all the women in our life look at us with unmitigated disgust.”
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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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“You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.”
-- Garrison KeillorSource : Garrison Keillor (2011). “Pontoon: A Lake Wobegon Novel”, p.156, Faber & Faber
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“Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head. ~Garrison Keillor”
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“I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.”
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“I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.”
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“Vodka is tasteless going down, but it is memorable coming up.”
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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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