Bernard De Voto Quotes

» 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.

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

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

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

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

» Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.

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