American Past Quotes by Bernard DeVoto

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• Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless,…
• The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.
• It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will…
• Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are…
• The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.
• History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.
• Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful…
• One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal,…
• Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.
• This is the violet hour, the hour of hush and wonder, when the affectations glow and valor is reborn, when the shadows…
• You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.
• The water of life was given to us to make us see for a while that we are more nearly men and…

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