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Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
— Bernard DeVoto
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
I like every part of growing older except what happens to your feet.Written by Avis DeVoto to Julia Child in As Always, Julia — Joan Reardon
The nation had had two symbols of solitude, the forest and the prairies; now it had a third, the mountains.
— Bernard DeVoto
The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.
— Bernard DeVoto
It is horrible how people will use anything as a political monkey wrench and to hell with the country. (Julia Child to Avis DeVoto)
— Joan Reardon
Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.
— Bernard DeVoto
The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.
— Bernard DeVoto
The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.
— Bernard DeVoto
California was almost entirely a dream, a dream vague but deep in the minds of a westering people.
— Bernard DeVoto
History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.
— Bernard DeVoto
The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
— Bernard DeVoto
Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.
— Bernard DeVoto
Art is man determined to die sane.
— Bernard DeVoto
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
