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

—Garrison Keillor

About Garrison Keillor

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Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor (; born August 7, 1942) is an American author, singer, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality. He created the Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) show A Prairie Home Companion (called Garrison Keillor's Radio Show in some international syndication), which he hosted from 1974 to 2016. Keillor created...

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Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

—Garrison Keillor

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

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They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

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Writer's block is what you get if you're too full of yourself and trying to be García Márquez. You sit and stare at the wall and nothing happens for you. It's like imagining you're a tree and trying to sprout leaves. Once you come to your senses and accept who you are, then there's no problem. I'm not García Márquez. I'm a late-middle-aged midlist fair-to-middling writer with a comfortable midriff, and it gives me quite a bit of pleasure.

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Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn.

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Joel: That's the movies, Ed. Try reality.
Ed: No thanks.

—Ellen Herman

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

—Dr. Karl Menninger

You bluffed me! I don't like it when people bluff me. It makes me question my perception of reality.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.

—Cyril Connolly

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

—Albert Einstein

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