Peter De Vries
Peter De Vries
Peter De Vrieswas 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"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 February 1910
CountryUnited States of America
couple bears intimacy
All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.
bears stature
What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature.
love hate thinking
I think people love each other a little more than they hate each other ... Love has a slim hold on the human corporation, like fifty-one per cent, but it's enough.
morning breakfast one-thing
There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for ...
marriage husband earth
... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.
marriage doe stability
I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability
family children humorous
There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.
father hate waiting
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
may stuff irony
Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.
sports earth cooperation
We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.
soul tweed coats
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
hate hate-me
Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
nature science world
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
loss order law
The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then pass a law saying, "Thou shalt not kill," is so monstrously, immeasurably, bottomlessly absurd that I am at a loss to understand how mankind has entertained or given it house room all this long.