Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there. Garrison Keillor More Quotes by Garrison Keillor More Quotes From Garrison Keillor 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, because I won't feel so thankful then. Garrison Keillor good-life thanksgiving thank-you The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose. Garrison Keillor sibling brother inspirational Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of descent gets steep Garrison Keillor wine boys firsts Not everyone has a Life's Work. Some people simply have a Life. Garrison Keillor people English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say. Garrison Keillor language perfect thinking ... and people are to march around the church to commemorate the event, Palm Sunday, when Jesus rode into Jerusalem and was greeted with applause and with palms. People thought he had come to overthrow the Romans, but ... no ... he had come to change THEM ... and that led to things turning bad. Garrison Keillor sunday people jesus March is the month God created to show people who don't drink what a hangover is like. Garrison Keillor hangover months people We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the words down, trying to get them right, operating by some inner sense of pitch and proportion, and from time to time, we stick the stuff in an envelope and ship it to an editor. Garrison Keillor editors writing thinking When it comes to finding available men in Minnesota, the odds are good, but the goods are odd. Garrison Keillor minnesota odds men Secret of life is to go through something harrowing that doesnt kill you...and to love one woman for the rest of your life. Garrison Keillor rest-of-your-life secret life-is When you're a little kid, your heart is open and tender and a harsh word can go straight in and become part of your life. Garrison Keillor heart littles kids Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but the older metaphor of farming (life as hard labor that is subject to weather and quirks of blind fate and may return no reward whatsoever and don't be surprised) is still in our blood. Garrison Keillor fate hard-work sports A 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 true-love song book Adolescence hits boys harder than it does girls. Girls bleed a little and their breasts pop out, big deal, but adolescence lands on a guy with both feet. . . . Your body is engulfed by chemicals of rage and despair, you pound, you shriek, you batter your head against the trees. You come away wounded, feeling that life is unknowable, can never be understood, only endured and sometimes cheated. Garrison Keillor girl feet boys There's no mastery to be had. You love the attempt. You don't master a story any more than you master a river. You feel lucky to canoe down it. Garrison Keillor lucky journey rivers He was admired for never being at a loss for words and never wasting any either. Garrison Keillor a-loss-for-words loss People in cars cause accidents and accidents in cars cause people. Garrison Keillor car causes people I thought A Prairie Home Companion would be an interesting thing to do for a summer or so. Public radio was just seven years old in 1974. It was a tiny organization in which a lot of things got started simply because there was all this time to fill. If you wanted to do an hour on Lithuanian folk dancing, you probably could have done it. Garrison Keillor summer home years 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 to fill in something better. Garrison Keillor details eye stories I was brought up imagining that cream rises to the top, merit wins out, the race is to the swift and riches to men of understanding, but it ain't necessarily so. The swift stand a better chance if they are also beautiful. Garrison Keillor winning beautiful men
