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 Vries

Mots clés misattributed-to-hemingway writing-drinking



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My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

Peter De Vries


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Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

Peter De Vries

Mots clés irony



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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 Vries


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What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.

Peter De Vries


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It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

Peter De Vries


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What 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 Vries


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Let us hope...that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.

Peter De Vries

Mots clés hope providence end acts-of-god



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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 Vries


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A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

Peter De Vries

Mots clés inspirational-love motherhood thankless-tasks



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