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The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.

Bernard DeVoto

The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens.
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Citizen Country Park Permamnetly Preserve
Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind.
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Airplane Player Wisdom
The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
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Reason Refuse Trouble
This is the violet hour, the hour of hush and wonder, when the affectations glow and valor is reborn, when the shadows deepen along the edge of the forest and we believe that, if we watch carefully, at any moment we may see the unicorn.
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Believe Shadow Watches
New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice, not Milan while the American empire careens onward toward its unpredicted end. . . .
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Civilization Destiny Life
One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification.
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Impact Inheritance May
The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.
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May Paper Writing
The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.
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Empires Internal People United States
The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.
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Doe Math Mind
A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.
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Mad May Novelists
Art is man determined to die sane.
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Art Determined Men
It is the first American section to be finished to achieve stability in the conditions of its life. It is the first old civilization, the first permanent civilization in America.
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Civilization Condition Country Finish Permanent
When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day’s occupation that is known as the cocktail hour. It marks the lifeward turn.
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Believe Food Heart Lifeward
The water of life was given to us to make us see for a while that we are more nearly men and women, more nearly kind and gentle and generous, pleasanter and stronger than without its vision there is any evidence we are.
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Evidence Generosity Life Men
Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.
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Done Onions People
Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.
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Government Race Stupid

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