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
sex men driven
Marriage has driven more than one man to sex.
time able ministers
Time heals nothing-which should make us better able to minister.
punishment delay waste
Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat longer for a paradox.
design
Are you pro- or anti-macassar?
pick-me-up trying despair
Try the Lamentations of Jeremiah. They always pick me up.
exercise unnatural
Exercise is an unnatural act.
hate humor feels
If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist.
mother father kitchen
I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo, "Were you calling me, dear?
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