Bernard DeVoto Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Bernard DeVoto:

The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.
~Bernard DeVoto


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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bernard-devoto-quotes/#091cf436

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bernard-devoto-quotes/#0628a62f

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bernard-devoto-quotes/#e5c5cdd2

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bernard-devoto-quotes/#18faa54a

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