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• "You ought to be ashamed," a woman in an Easter bonnet told Stein. "Your race gave us our religion..." "From ancient polytheism, the belief in lots of gods," the woman continued a little more eruditely, "the Hebrew nation led us on to the idea that there is only one." "Which is just a step from the truth," said Stein.

  Peter De Vries

  Easter, Race, Ideas

  Peter De Vries (2012). “The Blood of the Lamb: A Novel”, p.207, University of Chicago Press

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• Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the direction he came.

  Peter De Vries

  Funny Life, Men, Exit

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• Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

  Peter De Vries

  Past, Nostalgia, Used

  Quoted in L.A. Times, 26 July 1964

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• When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

  Peter De Vries

  Broken Heart, Home, Thinking

  Peter De Vries (2014). “The Tunnel of Love: A Novel”, p.85, University of Chicago Press

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• We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.

  Peter De Vries

  Brain, Ears, Devices

  Comfort me with Apples Ch. 1

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• Look at it this way: Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad.

  Peter De Vries

  Looks, Fads, Way

  1973 Forever Panting.

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• We are nothing but a string of gut on a stick of bone riding this piece of astral soot for one piteous splinter of eternity.

  Peter De Vries

  Riding, Splinters, Pieces

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• Marriage has driven more than one man to sex.

  Peter De Vries

  Sex, Men, Driven

  Peter De Vries (2014). “The Tunnel of Love: A Novel”, p.64, University of Chicago Press

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• We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother.

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  Adventure, Boredom, Pay

  Peter De Vries (2014). “Without a Stitch in Time: A Selection of the Best Humorous Short Pieces”, p.32, University of Chicago Press

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• The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

  Peter De Vries

  Laughter, Humor, Another Chance

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• Time heals nothing — which should make us the better able to minister.

  Peter De Vries

  Time, Able, Ministers

  "The Blood of the Lamb: A Novel".

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• Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

  Peter De Vries

  Pain, Heart, Mark

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• This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

  Peter De Vries

  May, Stuff, Irony

  "Mrs. Wallop".

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• Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.

  Peter De Vries

  Self, Abuse, Celibacy

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• 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.

  Peter De Vries

  Love, Hate, Thinking

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• "You don't believe in God," I said to Stein. "God is a word banging around in the human nervous system. He exists about as much as Santa Claus." "Santa Claus has had a tremendous influence, exist or not." "For children." "Lots of saints have died for God with a courage that's hardly childish." "That's part of the horror. It's all a fantasy. It's all for nothing."

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  Children, Believe, Atheism

  Peter De Vries (2012). “The Blood of the Lamb: A Novel”, p.182, University of Chicago Press

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• Sex in marriage is like medicine. Three times a day for the first week. Then once a day for another week. Then once every three or four days till the condition clears up.

  Peter De Vries

  Sex, Medicine, Funny Marriage

  Peter De Vries (1968). “The Cat's Pajamas and Witch's Milk”

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• I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'.

  Peter De Vries

  Men

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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.

  Peter De Vries

  People, May, Firsts

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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.

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  Eye, Vanity, People

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• I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

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  Funny, Summer, School

  Peter De Vries (2014). “The Tunnel of Love: A Novel”, p.158, University of Chicago Press

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• Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

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  Art, Food, Museums

  Peter De Vries (1982). “Madder Music”, Viking Press

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• I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.

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  Inspirational, Country, Teenager

  Peter De Vries (1967). “The vale of laughter”

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• Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy.

  Peter De Vries

  Believe, Astrology, Astronomy

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• Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.

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  Love, What Is Love, Blindness

  Peter De Vries (2014). “Comfort Me with Apples: A Novel”, p.28, Open Road Media

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