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Bernard DeVoto quotes: Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

Bernard DeVoto quotes: 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.

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.

Bernard DeVoto quotes: The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.

The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.

Bernard DeVoto quotes: The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

Bernard DeVoto quotes: The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.

The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.

Bernard DeVoto quotes: Art is man determined to die sane.

Art is man determined to die sane.

Bernard DeVoto quotes: Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.

Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.

Bernard DeVoto quotes: The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.

The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.

Bernard DeVoto quotes: History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.

History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.

Bernard DeVoto quotes: California was almost entirely a dream, a dream vague but deep in the minds of a westering people.

California was almost entirely a dream, a dream vague but deep in the minds of a westering people.

Bernard DeVoto quotes: The nation had had two symbols of solitude, the forest and the prairies; now it had a third, the mountains.

The nation had had two symbols of solitude, the forest and the prairies; now it had a third, the mountains.

Bernard DeVoto quotes: The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.

Bernard DeVoto quotes: The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.

The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.

Bernard DeVoto quotes: Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.

Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.

Bernard DeVoto quotes: You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.

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

Bernard DeVoto quotes: The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.

The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.