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I tried to write worse but it was no good my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged.
Peter De Vries
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Peter De Vries
Age: 83 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 27
Died: 1993
Died: September 28
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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.
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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.
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I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
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Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me?
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We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.
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Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy.
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The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.
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The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
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It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
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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.
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We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.
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Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.
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I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability
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I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'.
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