All Peter De Vries Quotes
- Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation —… Apollonian
- Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection. From
- 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… Acquire
- What people believe is a measure of what they suffer. Believe
- 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… Baffles
- 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… Break
- I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to… All
- A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else. Anyone
- I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any. Any
- Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter. Cookie
- Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring. Acts
- Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that… Adult
- Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness Happiness
- A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car for ever after. Car
- We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school. All