American - Writer | August 7, 1942 -
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
Garrison Keillor
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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, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
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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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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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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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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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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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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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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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