"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."
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"My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer."
Garrison Keillor"Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough."
Garrison Keillor"Humor 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"I 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"Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average."
Garrison Keillor"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."
Garrison Keillor"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."
Garrison Keillor"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function."
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