Quotes by Bernard DeVoto

Bernard DeVoto

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.

Mad

May

Novelists

Art is man determined to die sane.

Art

Determined

Men

Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.

Armistice

Art

Fate

New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice, not Milan while the American empire careens onward toward its unpredicted end. . . . It is the first American section to be finished to achieve stability in the conditions of its life. It is the first old civilization, the first permanent civilization in America.

Civilization

Destiny

Life

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

Empires

People

United States

The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.

Dawn

Knowledge

The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.

Medicine

Possibility

Teaching

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.

Food

Heart

Wall

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

Reason

Refuse

Trouble

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

Individuality

Sacred

Trouble

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Quotes by Bernard DeVoto

Bernard DeVoto

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.

Art is man determined to die sane.

Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.

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

The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.

The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.

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

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

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