Peter De Vries Quotes

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Peter De Vries

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 27, 1910 - September 28, 1993

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'What's Going On' is one of the greatest albums ever made. I definitely wasn't aiming to make my 'What's Going On,' you know what I mean? That album is definitely deep in my DNA. I've probably listened to that more than maybe any other album ever in my entire life.

Jim James

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More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty.

Jerry Weller

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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country's poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.

John Burroughs

CountryStrangeWillOldAlwaysOut

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.

John Irving

LaughterPeopleSympathySeriously

One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.

Robert Morgan

TimeUnexpectedYouPowerfulChoice

Wall Street has become a veritable casino.

Maurice Allais

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I'm totally crazy, I know that.

Maurice Sendak

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Having worked with Sarah Paulson on 'American Horror Story: Hotel' and seeing the lengths she goes to when shooting a scene, you go, 'Oh, so that's what this is going to be like.'

Max Greenfield

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Different cultures have different predilections for different kinds of crime.

Ann Coulter

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Ease of navigation is important in both physical and virtual space.

John Quelch

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I started competing in cross-country when I was seven years old.

Tora Berger

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I never got into the horror genre, and action was fine, but I just loved comedy. Any comedy I could get my hands on, I would. I watched 'Saturday Night Live' religiously.

Rob Riggle

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