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Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.

Bernard DeVoto

Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.
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Done Onions People
Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.
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Armistice Art Fate
The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
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Medicine Possibility Teaching
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
History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.
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Art History Philosophy
The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop – for convenience, the one hundredth meridian – you have reached the West.
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Average Lines Twenties
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
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 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 trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
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Reason Refuse Trouble
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
When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day’s occupation that is known as the cocktail hour.
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Cocktail Evening Occupation
Art is man determined to die sane.
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Art Determined Men
The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens.
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Citizen Country Park Permamnetly Preserve
The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.
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Dawn False Knowledge
You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.
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Kissing Martini Refrigerator

Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.

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