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Garrison Keillor

Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor (born August 7, 1942) is an American author, storyteller, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality. He is best known as the creator of the Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) show A Prairie Home Companion (called Garrison Keillor's Radio Show in some international syndication), which he hosted from 1974 to 2016. Keillor created the fictional Minnesota town Lake Wobegon, the setting of many of his books, including Lake Wobegon Days and Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories. Other creations include Guy Noir, a detective voiced by Keillor who appeared in A Prairie Home Companion comic skits. In November 2017, Minnesota Public Radio cut all business ties with Keillor after an allegation of inappropriate behavior with a staff member. On April 13, 2018, MPR and Keillor announced a settlement that will allow archives of A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer's Almanac to be publicly available again.

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Growing up in a place that has winter, you learn to avoid self-pity. Winter is not a personal experience, everybody else is just as cold as you, so you shouldn't complain about it too much. You learn this as a kid, coming home crying from the cold, and Mother looks down and says, 'It's only a little frostbite. You're okay. ' And thus you learn to be okay. What's done is done. Get over it. Drink your coffee. It's not the best you'll ever get but it's good enough.

Coffee, Cold, Done, Growing Up, Kid, Mother

The socially redeeming aspect of golf lies in the vast number of lawyers and bankers and managers who play it, and when you think of the damage they would do if they were at the job instead, you can see why golf courses are a wise investment for any municipality.

Instead, Jobs, Lying, Redeeming, Vast, Wise

IMPORTANT Book reading is a solitary and sedentary pursuit, and those who do are cautioned that a book should be used as an integral part of a well-rounded life, including a daily regimen of rigorous physical exercise, rewarding personal relationships, and sensible low-fat diet. A book should not be used a as a substitute or an excuse.

Book, Excuse, Exercise, Including, Reading, Sensible

I've seen the truth, and it makes no sense.

Murphys Law, Seen, Sense, Truth

I felt bad for that world that we have given a generation of kids.

Felt, Generations, Given, Kids, World

Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.

Honesty, Marriages, Palaces, Rocks

People meet writers and are bowled over when the writer is friendly to them and invites them to his house for a glass of wine or to shoot up heroin or whatever they do, and they talk their heads off, and a year later it comes out in a book, and there follow years of bitter and fruitless litigation, and that is why you should always keep a writer at arm's length.

Bitter, Book, Glasses, Litigation, People, Wine

I loved feeling special. I hated feeling special.

Feeling, Feelings, Hated, Loved, Special

The relationship between truth and a newspaper is like the relationship between the color green and the number seven. Occasionally you will see the number seven written in green, but you learn not to expect this.

Color, Expect, Green, Newspaper, Numbers

We come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.

Believe, Pass, People, Struggle

There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.

Book, Fiction, Interested, Paid, Pushing, Writing

Not everyone has a Life's Work. Some people simply have a Life.

Everyone, Life, People, Simply, Work

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.

Head, Life, Like, Midwest, New York, Want

I don't want them to be told to remember me.

Life And Death, Remember, Told, Want

God is a great humorist. He just has a slow audience to work with.

Audience, God, Humorists, Slow, Work

When in doubt, look intelligent.

Doubt, Inspirational, Intelligent, Look

Marriage, friends, is a lifelong feast; love is no light lunch.

Lifelong, Light, Love Is, Lunch, Marriage

Love has the power to rescue us and not let go, otherwise it isn't love

Let, Letting Go, Love, Power, Rescue

Eating a little was like vomiting a little, just as bad as a lot.

Eating, Like, Littles, Vomiting

The fundamental religion of most of mankind is the faith that God has revealed Himself to us and not to the barbarians. Our tribe is the one God chose and so if we vanquish the other tribes and rain fire and destruction on them, we're only carrying out God's Will.

Chose, Fire, Fundamental, Mankind, Rain, Religion

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