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.
Peter De VriesTags: misattributed-to-hemingway writing-drinking
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Peter De VriesHuman nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.
Peter De VriesTags: irony
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.
Peter De VriesWhat people believe is a measure of what they suffer.
Peter De VriesIt is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
Peter De VriesWhat baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much more congenial - or at least less horrible. Prove to me that there is a God and I will really begin to despair.
Peter De VriesLet us hope...that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.
Peter De VriesTags: hope providence end acts-of-god
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.
Peter De VriesA suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
Peter De VriesTags: inspirational-love motherhood thankless-tasks
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