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 Discouraged Copy Share Image
"You ought to be ashamed," a woman in an Easter bonnet told Stein. "Your race gave us our religion..." "From ancient polytheism,… — Peter De Vries Ancient Copy Share Image
How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately? — Peter De Vries Happiness Copy Share Image
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. — Peter De Vries Character Copy Share Image
I think people love each other a little more than they hate each other ... Love has a slim hold on the… — Peter De Vries Cents Copy Share Image
Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another? — Peter De Vries Family Copy Share Image
The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to… — Peter De Vries Absurd Copy Share Image
Time heals nothing-which should make us better able to minister. — Peter De Vries Able Copy Share Image
We are nothing but a string of gut on a stick of bone riding this piece of astral soot for one piteous… — Peter De Vries Bones Copy Share Image
"You don't believe in God," I said to Stein. "God is a word banging around in the human nervous system. He exists… — Peter De Vries Atheism Copy Share Image
We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to… — Peter De Vries Bones Copy Share Image
There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for ... — Peter De Vries Breakfast Copy Share Image
The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums. — Peter De Vries Food Copy Share Image
A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else. — Peter De Vries Fewer Copy Share Image
Before the mind snaps, or the heart breaks, it gather itself like a clock about to strike. It might even be said… — Peter De Vries Break Copy Share Image
Mrs Thicknesse and I agreed that a business of his own was probably the only solution for him because he was obviously… — Peter De Vries Business Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements… — Peter De Vries Creation Copy Share Image
There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you. — Peter De Vries Feeding Copy Share Image
Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been… — Peter De Vries End Copy Share Image
