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
real drawing issues
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. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?
people want action
People rarely do what they don't want to.
believe astrology astronomy
Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy.
sex medicine funny-marriage
Sex in marriage is like medicine. Three times a day for the first week. Then once a day for another week. Then once every three or four days till the condition clears up.
god kind providence
Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.
writing should-have beginning-middle-and-end
Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end.
pain heart mark
Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.
eye vanity giving
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 this complex life straight in the eye acquire a wealth of perception so composed of delicately balanced contradictions that they dread, or resent, the call to couch any part of it in a bland generalization. The vanity (if not outrage) of trying to cage this dance of atoms in a single definition may give the weariness of age with the cry of youth for answers the appearance of boredom.
believe people suffering
What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.
heart mind together
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 together to disintegrate.
stars joy may
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 the stars, but learning that one may stay where one is.
men politics politician
A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.
home thinking broken
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.
brain ears devices
We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.