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Garrison Keillor is an American author, storyteller, and radio personality, best known as the creator and host of "A Prairie Home Companion." His gentle humor and vivid storytelling have captivated audiences for decades. He has received numerous awards for his contributions to literature and public radio. Here are 85 of his quotes:

Powdermilk biscuits Heavens, they're tasty and expeditious They're made from whole wheat, to give shy persons the strength to get up and do what needs to be done.

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I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.

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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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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.

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It is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake.

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I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.

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Evelyn was an insomniac so when they say she died in her sleep, you have to question that.

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All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like this fair, and make it something larger than life.

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Some people have a love of their fellow man in their hearts, and others require a light anesthetic.

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I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.

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I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write in hotel rooms. I love hotel rooms. I just write wherever I am whenever I need to write.

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Ralph Stanley is like an uncle to us and now that all my uncles are gone, Ralph's singing is even more precious. This album of classic folk songs is one of his best.

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There's so many people who move around our country and lose track of their own ancestry. It's nice to know where you come from.

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I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.

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

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If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?

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In electronic publishing, they're are no editors and if their are there not very good.

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The French have a new president, the British will soon have a new P. M., and we envy them as we endure the endless wait for this small dim man to go back to Texas and resume his life.

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The word "loser” is spoken with such contempt these days, a man might like to forget the losses in his own life that taught him something about good judgment. The money he invested in that casino in Atlantic City that went bust, the university course he enrolled in that promised to teach him the secrets of success but instead he wound up unemployed and 40 grand in debt, the candidate whose hat he wore who turned out to be tone-deaf and deluded - dumb, dumb, dumb, and yet his loved ones did not chortle and point and do the nyaa-nyaa. They put an arm around him and said, "This is how we learn.”.

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If the government can round up someone and never be required to explain why, then it's no longer the United States of America as you and I always understood it. Our enemies have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. They have made us become like them.

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Well, they're taking kids out of the country and sending them over there, National Guard kids and Army Reserve. They're sending kids who are barely prepared for this, and they're sending them over there to kill people, which is a serious thing. And to kill not terrorists, but to kill insurgents. I sort of find myself in agreement, uncomfortably, with Patrick Buchanan, who writes about this in his book, Where The Right Went Wrong. And writes that great powers, the way they skidded off the road, was getting involved in wars. That it's the role of great powers to stay out of wars.

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It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town, out on the edge of the prairie...

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