Creative Quotations from Peter De Vries (1910-1993)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Peter De Vries
(1910-1993) born on Feb 27

US "novelist, editor". "He was well known as a satirist, linguist, and critically acclaimed for his comic novels "The Tunnel of Love," 1954, & "Comfort Me with Apples," 1956."

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

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

"Every novel should have a beginning, a muddle, and an end."

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
R:	"The Reverend Andrew Mackerel, in The Mackerel Plaza, ch. 1 (1958). "This aphorism," De Vries added, "seemed to his hearers so much better than anything Voltaire had said on the subject that he was g"
A:	"In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
N:	"In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
K:	"The narrator, Joe Sandwich, in The Vale of Laughter, pt. 1, ch. 1 (1967)."