"After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings, starting in 1909 and carrying through his final seventeen years, finish off the notion that Monet went happily ever after into lily-land."

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"To me, America used to be a place that made steel, and cars, and had giant department stores. Now, basicall…"

"To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art."

"Progressives conceive of themselves as a caste apart, a special and specialized group of enlightened men an…"

"For our people to have lived together for one and a quarter century it is difficult to believe that at a pe…"

"Socialism sounds great. It has always sounded great. And it will probably always continue to sound great. I…"