Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless,… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
You can no more keep a martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there. The proper union of gin… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there. — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless, we have… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice, not Milan while the American empire careens onward toward its… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire. — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it. — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
The water of life was given to us to make us see for a while that we are more nearly men and women, more… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
You can no more keep a martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there. The proper union of gin and vermouth… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification.… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
