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A book is a gift you can open again and again.

— Garrison Keillor

More from Garrison Keillor

  1. Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.
  2. A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
  3. That's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
  4. 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.
  5. It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town, out on the edge of the prairie...
  6. 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 …
  7. If the government can round up someone and never be required to explain why, then it's no longer the United States of America as you and I …
  8. Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.

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  • books
  • gifts
  • knowledge
  • reading

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