"Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and……" — Peter De Vries
"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."
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75 Quotes by Peter De Vries
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When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the…
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I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.
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We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my…
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We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.
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Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask.…
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We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.…
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Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
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Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back…
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Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end.
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Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under…
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Sex in marriage is like medicine. Three times a day for the first week. Then once a day for another…
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We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.
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