"You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories."

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Source : Garrison Keillor (2011). “Pontoon: A Lake Wobegon Novel”, p.156, Faber & Faber

Garrison Keillor

#Age Quotes #Stories Quotes #Answers Quotes

“Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ. The soul, in time of prosperity, scatters its affections, and looses itself in the creature; but there is a uniting power in sanctified afflictions, by which a believer, (as in rain a hen collects her brood) gathers his best affections unto his Father and his God.”
“I never had a connection like that to anyone, where every day you think about what youâ€™ll tell them and you wonder what theyâ€™re doing, and you know theyâ€™re wondering what youâ€™re doing.”
“I make fun whenever I go. If I go to restaurant by myself, rest assured, people will be talking about it.”
“I drank a lot, but I wouldn't have missed it. I look back on it as sort of dreary enjoyment, because I don't have to be there anymore.”
“I met Harrison Ford when I was at Comic Con. I didn't know what to say. He was standing behind these two bodyguards - I think he was going up next for Ender's Game - and I had just come off the panel. I saw him sitting over there and I couldn't believe it, so I just walked over to him. He looked right at me and said, "Are you Michael Madsen's son? You look a lot like your dad. You've got a great look, man. I think you're going to have a good future." I just couldn't believe he said that, and then he walked right onto the panel.”

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“I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.”
“Societies have progressed much more during times of peace than during wars.”
“'That which does not kill me makes me stronger' is not a law of the universe. What it can be, if we so choose, is a resolution.”

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