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Bernard DeVoto

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Also known as Bernard Augustine De Voto, Bernard Augustine DeVoto, Bernard Augustine, DeVoto

American historian and author (1897–1955)

Person · Open Library

Works
18

Top works

  • Prentice Hall Literature--Silver
  • The World of Fiction
  • Four Portraits and One Subject:
  • The faculty first
  • We accept with pleasure

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1952-03-15
classic pop and rock

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Listeners
1
Total plays
2

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Quotes

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
  • Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
  • Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.
  • Biography seemed to be no more than a high-spirited game of yanking out shirttails and setting fire to them.

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date of birth
1897-01-11
date of death
1955-11-13
Sources (7)

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Works in European collections

1 object attributed to Bernard DeVoto, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Available in 6 languages

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