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.
BERNARD DEVOTOThe 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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Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.
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The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.
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History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.
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The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
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Art is man determined to die sane.
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The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.
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The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens.
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The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
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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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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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Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.
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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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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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You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.
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The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.
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