You've got work to do. Don't put this off. And don't take the long view, here. You know? Life is today and tomorrow and - and if you're lucky, next week. Garrison Keillor More Quotes by Garrison Keillor More Quotes From Garrison Keillor It's better to be burnished with use than rusty with principle. Garrison Keillor principles use action Where I come from, when a Catholic marries a Lutheran it is considered the first step on the road to Minneapolis. Garrison Keillor catholic steps firsts A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists, a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in flames, most people would smile from pure reflex. Garrison Keillor flames class people A man can't eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul. Garrison Keillor anger sleep men Why is divorce so expensive? Because it's worth it! Garrison Keillor worth-it divorce expensive Spending time in a church does not make you religious, any more than spending time in a garage makes you a car. Garrison Keillor car church religious Being an English major prepares you for impersonating authority. Garrison Keillor english-major authority majors Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement, and now it is a problem to be overcome. Garrison Keillor achievement opportunity years The great unrequited love tears open your heart to the beauty of the world, its small rivers and upland meadows. It also makes you kinder to the next hundred thousand persons who cross your path. Garrison Keillor heart rivers love We live a pleasant life shopping at the Food Shoppe . . . taking the kids to the Weinery-Beanery, . . . and eating bran flakes . .. and then, with no warning, we wake up one morning stricken with middle age, full of loneliness, dumb, in pain. Our work is useless, our vocation is lost, and nobody cares about us at all. This is not bearable. In despair, we go do something spectacularly dumb, like run away with Amber the cocktail waitress, and suddenly all the women in our life look at us with unmitigated disgust. Garrison Keillor pain running morning Men peak at age nineteen and go downhill. Garrison Keillor nineteen age men She gave him such a look... Man oh man, if looks could kill. That one might have totalled a city block. Garrison Keillor block cities men That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant me like Reed Seymour couldn't figure this out for the life of them! Reed was ashamed of radio. ...radio was a cinch if you kept reaching down and grabbing up handfuls of the ordinary. Garrison Keillor secret sports art The problem with paradise is that it's temporary: You don't belong here and the neighbors are nobody you care to know, so it's only blissful for a week or so. Garrison Keillor paradise care problem Possessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead. Garrison Keillor nervous decline perfection People always are encouraging about a terrible loss, so that sometimes the loser would like to strangle them. Garrison Keillor losing loss people Childhood is the small town everyone came from. Garrison Keillor childhood small-town towns Roy Blount's stuff makes me laugh so hard, sometimes I have to go sit in a room and shut the door Garrison Keillor stuff doors laughing Wal-Mart is going in and slaughtering [small towns] just as we once killed the buffalo. Garrison Keillor buffalo small-town towns Enough. Man is capable of reform once presented with the facts, and the fact is that bottling water and shipping it is a big waste of fuel, so stop already. Garrison Keillor reform water men
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