26 Quotes by Bernard DeVoto

Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.

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

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

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

A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.

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

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.

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