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Peter De Vries Biography

Peter De Vries (February 27, 1910 – September 28, 1993) was an American editor and novelist known for his satiric wit. He has been described by the philosopher Daniel Dennett as "probably the funniest writer on religion ever".

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Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.

Blindness, Love, Oftener, Seeing, What Is Love

Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.

Abuse, Celibacy, Self, Worst

I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability

Marriage, Doe, Stability, Suppose, Marry

Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat longer for a paradox.

Delay, Punishment, Serving, Somewhat, Time, Waste

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

Experience, Funny, School, Summer, Thinking

All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.

Acquainted, Bears, Couple, Couples, Intimacy, Strain

Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?

Reason, Starting, Awfulness, Families, Popular

We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.

Brain, Deep, Drowned, Gruel, Kissing, Romantic Love

A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.

Hester, Hundred, Letter, Letters, Today, Years

What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.

Believe, Measure, People, Suffer, Suffering

I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged.

Came, Discouraged, Lasts, Worse, Write, Writing

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Nostalgia, Past, Used

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.

Creation, Discipline, Drunk, Sober, Writing

We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.

Brain, Devices, Ears, Grating

Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.

Acts, Ends, God, Kind, Laboring

We are nothing but a string of gut on a stick of bone riding this piece of astral soot for one piteous splinter of eternity.

Astral, Eternity, Pieces, Riding, Soot, Splinters

Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful.

Know, Men, People, Wonderful

There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for.

Morning, Breakfast, Seems, Thing, Times

Look at it this way: Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad.

Fads, Look, Looks, Permanent, Psychoanalysis, Way

He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers, but those looking this complex life straight in the eye acquire a wealth of perception so composed of delicately balanced contradictions that they dread, or resent, the call to couch any part of it in a bland generalization. The vanity (if not outrage) of trying to cage this dance of atoms in a single definition may give the weariness of age with the cry of youth for answers the appearance of boredom.

Boredom, Call, Composed, Eye, Straight, Vanity

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