“There's no mastery to be had. You love the attempt. You don't master a story any more than you master a river. You feel lucky to canoe down it.” FeelsStoriesJourneyMastersLuckyRiversMastery Author:Garrison Keillor
“I feel it's so hard for young actors; It's a different world that they're coming up in; there's so much money to be made off of their personal lives, and people are bound and determined to make that money.” PeopleWorldFeelsMadeDifferentHardYoungActorsBoundsDeterminedPersonal LifeDifferent WorldsYoung Actors Author:Garrison Keillor
“As a former English major, I am a sitting duck for Gift Books, and in the past few years I've gotten Dickens, Thackeray, Smollet, Richardson, Emerson, Keats, Boswell and the Brontes, all of them Great, none of them ever read by me, all of them now on a shelf, looking at me and making me feel guilty.” FeelsYearsBookPastMajorsSittingGuiltyFormerDucksShelvesDickensEnglish MajorBronte Author:Garrison Keillor
“Your car, comfort though it be, this little den and dining room on wheels, is a prison that deadens your senses, and to feel wholly alive you must go for a walk.” FeelsLittlesWalksRoomsAliveCarComfortPrisonSensesWheelsDiningDensDining Rooms Author:Garrison Keillor
“I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsShouldWritingOughtCompetitionNot InterestedCompetitorsTempted Author:Garrison Keillor
“When the New Yorker turned down work, they turned it down in such an elaborately gentlemanly way making apologies for their own shortsightedness. Undoubtedly it was their fault but somehow for some reason this fell short of the remarkably high standard that you by your own work have set for yourself. They had a way of rejecting my work that made me feel sorry for them somehow.” WayFeelsMadeReasonStandardsFaultsSorryApologyNew YorkersRejectingHigh StandardsTurned DownGentlemanly Author:Garrison Keillor
“Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.” IfsFeelsEnoughThreeHoursChanceSeaRainRiversWake UpForgivingDearFishesBoatThanksLakesFishingGood LifeThanksgivingThank YouDear God Author:Garrison Keillor
“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.” PeopleIfsFeelsShouldBelieveLife IsStrugglePatientBe PatientReally HappyLife Is A Struggle Author:Garrison Keillor
“We have nearly complete misunderstanding between people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon, and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well. It's when you are trying to convince another person to think the same way that you do that there is friction and trouble between people. But when you feel that the other person is dumber than dirt, too dumb for words - why waste your breath - you get along pretty well. There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsTryingWellsPersonsDifferentReasonStrongTroubleWasteBreathsSuperiorsDumbReason WhyLakesConvinceDirtMisunderstandingFrictionTrying HardDifferent FaithsLake Wobegon Author:Garrison Keillor
“I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph.” FeelsWritingNew YorkTriumphRhymeOysters Author:Garrison Keillor
“A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists, a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in flames, most people would smile from pure reflex.” PeopleIfsFeelsPersonsDoeClassPureJournalistFlamesDespisedReflexes Book:The Book of Guys: Stories Source: The Book of Guys: Stories
“I am a cheerful man, even in the dark, and it's all thanks to a good Lutheran mother. . . . Mother was well composed, a true Lutheran, and taught me to Cheer up, Make yourself useful, Mind your manners, and above all, Don't feel sorry for yourself.” MenFeelsMindWellsMotherDarkTaughtSorryThanksMannersCheerCheerfulSelf PityCheer UpFeel Sorry For YouLutherans Book:Wobegon Boy Source: Wobegon Boy
