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Art is man determined to die sane.

Bernard DeVoto

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
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
The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.
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Food Heart Promise Season Sense Wall
Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.
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Armistice Art Fate
Art is man determined to die sane.
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Art Determined Men
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 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
The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.
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Dawn False Knowledge
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
The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
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Medicine Possibility Teaching
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 best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.
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May Paper Writing
You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.
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Kissing Martini Refrigerator
The heart wakens from coma and its dyspnea ends. Its strengthening pulse is to cross over into campground, to believe that the world has not been altogether lost or, if lost, then not altogether in vain.
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Altogether Campground Coma Pulse Strengthening Weaken
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

Art is man determined to die sane.

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