Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
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You can no more keep a martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there. 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 De Voto
Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.
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The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.
Bernard De Voto
The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop for convenience, the one hundredth meridian you have reached the West.
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History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.
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The water of life was given to us to make us see for a while that we are more nearly men and women, more nearly kind and gentle and generous, pleasanter and stronger than without its vision there is any evidence we are.
Bernard De Voto
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