Garrison Keillor - Time Quotes

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Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either

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My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at that time.

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I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us.

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The little town that time forgot, that the decades cannot improve.

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Lake Wobegon, where smart doesn't count for so much. A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

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I grew up in a gentler, slower time… Christmases were years apart, and now it's about five months from one to the next.

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Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

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Take care of your friends. Because there will come a time when you'll be no good to anyone, and the only reason for people to talk to you will be sheer habit.

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