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

Peter De Vries

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

The difference between satire and humor is that the satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive—often to release him again for another chance.

Peter De Vries

It is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.

Peter De Vries

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

Peter De Vries

The traditional conflict between flesh and spirit, as viewed by the Christianity now supposedly outmoded, isn't likely to ease up because we have scrapped the notion of sin and now speak instead of the ego and superego between them riding herd on something called the id. It's the same keg of nails any way you open it.

Peter De Vries

The murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

Peter De Vries

Peter De Vries

Born: February 27, 1910

Died: September 28, 1993 (aged 83)

Bio: 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".

Known for:

The blood of the lamb (1961)
Slouching towards Kalamazoo (1983)
The Mackerel Plaza (1958)
The tents of wickedness (1959)
The vale of laughter (1968)

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