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You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.

Bernard DeVoto

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
History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.
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Art History Philosophy
Art is man determined to die sane.
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Art Determined Men
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 mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.
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Doe Math Mind
You can no more keep a martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there. The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth and one of the shortest-lived.
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Earth Happiest Kissing Life Sudden
Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.
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Done Onions People
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
You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.
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Kissing Martini Refrigerator
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
Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind.
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Airplane Player Wisdom
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
The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.
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Individuality Sacred Trouble
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
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
The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens.
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Citizen Country Park Permamnetly Preserve

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