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

Bernard DeVoto

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
Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.
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Armistice Art Fate
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 parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens.
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Citizen Country Park Permamnetly Preserve
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
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
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 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 only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
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Medicine Possibility Teaching
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
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
Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.
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Done Onions People
History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.
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Art History Philosophy
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 dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.
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Dawn False Knowledge
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

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

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