I want to resume the life of a shy person.
Garrison Keillor
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Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
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.
A book is a gift you can open again and again.
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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.
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.
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
I want to resume the life of a shy person.
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.
Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth-breather there is.
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.
One day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned by Lutheran Brotherhood and must re negotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who don't understand why anyone would pay more than $120.00 for a suit.
People will miss that it once meant something to be Southern or Midwestern. It doesn't mean much now, except for the climate. The question, 'Where are you from?' doesn't lead to anything odd or interesting. They live somewhere near a Gap store, and what else do you need to know?
Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.
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.
Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.
The funniest line in English is "Get it?" When you say that, everyone chortles.
Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
Where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking and all the children are above-average.
Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premisis. If I open a cupboard and see, say, 30 cans of tomato sauce and a five-pound bag of rice, I get a little thrill of well-being-much more so than if I take a look at the quarterly dividend report from my mutual fund.
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