A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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Garrison Keillor
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About Garrison Keillor
Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor is an American author, singer, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality. He created the Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) show A Prairie Home Companion, 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…
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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, beca…
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
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.
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
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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Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
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.
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.
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.
Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.