Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway. Garrison Keillor More Quotes by Garrison Keillor More Quotes From Garrison Keillor It's important for survival that children have their own experiences, the kind they learn from. The kind their parents arrange for are not as useful. Good parents are the hardest to get rid of. Garrison Keillor survival parent children A compassionate conservative is someone who electrocutes juveniles but lets them have a last 'make a wish'. Garrison Keillor conservative lasts wish A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever. Garrison Keillor journalism forever joy I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy. Garrison Keillor age children thinking Being rich and thin isn't everything. Garrison Keillor being-rich riches rich I remember when I switched from Christmas to sex as the secret of happiness. Garrison Keillor secret happiness sex My generation was secretive, brooding, ambitious, show-offy, and this generation is congenial. Totally. I imagine them walking around with GPS chips that notify them when a friend is in the vicinity, and their GPSes guide them to each other in clipped electronic lady voices and they sit down side by side in a coffee shop and text-message each other while checking their e-mail and hopping and skipping around Facebook to see who has posted pictures of their weekend. Garrison Keillor gps weekend coffee I hiked around town, the air sweet and dry, and was sort of overwhelmed by the perfection of it -- the old courthouse, the train depot, Mount [Jumbo] and Mount Sentinel rising up, the neon bars, the funky festivity of a college town . Garrison Keillor college air sweet Never insult a writer. You may find yourself immortalized in ways you may not appreciate. Garrison Keillor finding-yourself appreciate may Humor is not about problems with airline luggage handlers. It's about our lives in America and it's about the ends of our lives and it's about everything that happens after that and everything that happened before. Garrison Keillor problem ends america ...opening up a newspaper is the key to looking classy and smart. Never mind the bronze-plated stuff about the role of the press in a democracy - a newspaper, kiddo, is about Style. Garrison Keillor opening-up smart keys Before the world was made, when it was only darkness and mist and waters, God was well aware of Lake Wobegon, my family, our house, and He had me all sketched out down to what size my feet would be (big), which bike I would ride (Schwinn), and the five ears of corn I'd eat for supper that night. Garrison Keillor god lakes night I was afraid you had deceased,' he said. 'Or gotten engrossed in a long book. Garrison Keillor said long book No matter what time of year I come here, people always say the same thing: Its not usually like this. Garrison Keillor matter people years Majestic doesn't appeal to us. We [Americans] like the Grand Canyon better with Clarence and Arlene parked in front of it, smiling. Garrison Keillor grand-canyon canyons majestic Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze. Garrison Keillor ignorance kids children When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't. Garrison Keillor done ambition long We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our early twenties as cool dudes, wily, dashing, winsome . . . shooting baskets, the breeze, the moon, and then we try to become caring men, good husbands, great fathers, good citizens. Garrison Keillor husband caring father 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. Garrison Keillor midwest new-york want No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs. Garrison Keillor suicide writing death
