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

Bernard DeVoto

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 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 the terms of an armistice signed with fate.
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Armistice Art Fate
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
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 mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.
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Doe Math Mind
Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind.
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Airplane Player Wisdom
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
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 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
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 best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.
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May Paper Writing
History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.
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Art History Philosophy
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

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