A book is a gift you can open again and again. Garrison Keillor quotes

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car. ― Garrison Keillor.

One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don’t read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining. ― Garrison Keillor

Gary Edward “Garrison” Keillor is an American author, storyteller, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality. He is best known as the creator of the Minnesota Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion, which he hosted from 1974 to 2016.

1. Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. ― Garrison Keillor

2. A book is a gift you can open again and again. ― Garrison Keillor

3. 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

4. It’s a shallow life that doesn’t give a person a few scars. ― Garrison Keillor

5. I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. ― Garrison Keillor 

6. Be well, do good work, and keep in touch. ― Garrison Keillor

7. When in doubt, look intelligent. ― Garrison Keillor

8. You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories. ― Garrison Keillor

9. Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. ― Garrison Keillor

10. 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. ― Garrison Keillor 

11. A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded gun on your coffee table- There’s nothing wrong with them, but it’s hard to stop thinking about it. ― Garrison Keillor

12. A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together. ― Garrison Keillor

13. Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places. ― Garrison Keillor

14. A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing. ― Garrison Keillor

15. One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life.. ― Garrison Keillor 

16. My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer. ― Garrison Keillor

17. We come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass. ― Garrison Keillor

18. Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. ― Garrison Keillor

19. Life is unjust and this is what makes it so beautiful. Every day is a gift. Be brave and take hold of it. ― Garrison Keillor

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20. It is a sin to believe the evil of others but it is seldom a mistake. ― Garrison Keillor 

21. 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

22. Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it’s being done to him or by him. — Frank A. Clark

23. Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. — Frank A. Clark

24. The difference between false memories and true ones is the
same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the
most real, the most brilliant. ― Salvador Dali

25. While money can’t buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery. ― Groucho Marx

26. One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams. ― Salvador Dali