Peter De Vries quotes - page 2

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. (Peter De Vries)
Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart. View quote
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A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. View quote
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Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation - the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline. View quote
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What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much more congenial - or at least less horrible. Prove to me that there is a God and I will really begin to despair. View quote
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What people believe is a measure of what they suffer. View quote
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Before the mind snaps, or the heart breaks, it gather itself like a clock about to strike. It might even be said one pulls himself together to disintegrate. View quote
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This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection. View quote
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You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice. View quote
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Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, What's in it for me. View quote
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