01c. 1969 ADA lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.Garrison Keillor / quote ↗
02c. 1969 ADSome luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.Garrison Keillor / quote ↗
03c. 1969 ADMy God, rich people have the time to praise You if they want to, but the poor people are so busy, accept their work as praise because, my God, they don’t have time for everything.Garrison Keillor / quote ↗
04c. 1969 ADIt is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake.Garrison Keillor / quote ↗
05c. 1969 ADThey say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.Garrison Keillor / quote ↗
06c. 1969 ADA romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song but your true love is the one you make a life with and write more than a line about you write a whole book.Garrison Keillor / quote ↗
07c. 1969 ADHumor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.Garrison Keillor / quote ↗
08c. 1969 ADThank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.Garrison Keillor / quote ↗
09c. 1969 ADThank 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, because I won't feel so thankful then.Garrison Keillor / quote ↗
10c. 1969 ADNothing 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.Garrison Keillor / quote ↗
11c. 1969 ADCats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.Garrison Keillor / quote ↗
12c. 1969 ADI'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.Garrison Keillor / quote ↗
13c. 1969 ADI write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.Garrison Keillor / quote ↗
14c. 1969 ADI 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.Garrison Keillor / quote ↗
15c. 1969 ADThe highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.Garrison Keillor / quote ↗
16c. 1969 ADWelcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.Garrison Keillor / quote ↗
17c. 1969 ADGod writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.Garrison Keillor / quote ↗
18c. 1969 ADThey 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.Garrison Keillor / quote ↗
