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Out Quotes by Garrison Keillor
- Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it. Make mistakes and…
- That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant me like Reed…
- You learn this great lesson of life: it's not about me. It's just not. The matter of talent-which seemed so important to you when you…
- TV news is as bloody as Shakespeare but without the intelligence and the poetry. If you watch television news you know less about the world…
- Bravery and adventure! That's the ticket! Don't sit and gather moss. Get up, get out, do what you dream of doing, and if it doesn't…
- I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader…
- Before the world was made, when it was only darkness and mist and waters, God was well aware of Lake Wobegon, my family, our house,…
- This is Democratic bedrock: we don't let people lie in the ditch and drive past and pretend not to see them dying. Here on the…
- The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
- 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…
- A person cannot coast along in old destructive habits year after year and accept whatever comes along. A person must stand up on her own…
- I have taken so many wrong turns and been so careless with precious things and managed to lose, or break, or leave out in the…
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