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Peter De Vries [1910-1993] American

Rank: 101
Novelist, Editor

Peter De Vries was 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".

Marriage, Food, Anniversary, Art, Car, Chance, Humor, Life, Morning, Music

Quote	Tags	Rank
Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.		101
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.	Food	102
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.	Anniversary	103
The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.	Music	104
Life is a zoo in a jungle.	Life	105
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.		106
The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.	Food	107
Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.		108
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.		109
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.	Chance, Humor	110
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.	Marriage	111
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.		112
There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.		113
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.	Car	114
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.		115
Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.		116
Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.		117
Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.	Marriage	118
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.	Marriage	119
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.		120
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.		121
Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.	Art	122
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.		123
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.		124
The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.		125
I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.	Morning	126
I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.		201
We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.		202
I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.		203
Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.		204

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