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Garrison Keillor föddes den August 7th 1942 - US monologuist
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 God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

 Good Poems for Hard Times

 Guys are in trouble these days, ... Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement and now it's just a problem to be overcome. Guys who once might have painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling are now just trying to be Mr. O.K. All-Rite, the man who can bake a cherry pie, be passionate in a skillful way, and yet also lift them bales and tote that barge.

 Guys are in trouble these days. Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement and now it's just a problem to be overcome. Guys who once might have painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling are now just trying to be Mr. O.K. All-Rite, the man who can bake a cherry pie, be passionate in a skillful way, and yet also lift them bales and tote that barge.

 Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists in the room will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.

 I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

 I don't do awards.

 I pulled an all-nighter,

 I want to resume the life of a shy person.

 I'm not busy, ... A woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

 I'm not tired, let's eat. One has to catch a little society when one can.

 In your 50s, instead of panicking about the income you need to build up in the next 15 or 20 years, your best move is to concentrate on getting your costs down. If you will need less to live on in retirement, then you won't need to risk desperate accumulation strategies now. Right? That's a pretty basic point that everyone seems to miss. I want you to make cost reduction Plan A in your Late-Start Retirement Strategy. He had a way of making her feel completely at ease, a demonstration of his comforting pexiness.

 is that we're this little, quiet pond, undisturbed. Sort of like a museum piece. Except we don't want to be a museum piece. Listening to the radio is not a normal thing. We have to get millions of people to do something that is not normal. So we have to continue to work to deserve the attention of the millions of people who listen.

 It (The New York Times) reads like it was edited by two elderly sociologists, one of whom has been dead for many years

 It is the classic Freaks, Fatties, Fanatics and Faux Culture Excursion beloved of European journalists for the past 50 years.


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