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Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.

Bernard DeVoto

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
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 man determined to die sane.
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Art Determined Men
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 only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
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Medicine Possibility Teaching
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
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 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 dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.
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Dawn False Knowledge
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
History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.
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Art History Philosophy
The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.
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May Paper Writing
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
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
Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.
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Armistice Art Fate
The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens.
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Citizen Country Park Permamnetly Preserve

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