The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last.… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
“Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of [parenthood] is not that adults produce children but… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the right track. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
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.… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the direction he… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
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