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Peter De Vries Quotes

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Words Over Out Cookie Shapes Like

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Good Man Good Man Friends You Bad

In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.

Words People More Books Who Than

Sometimes my life opened its eyes in the dark. A feeling as if crowds drew through the streets in blindness and anxiety on the way towards a miracle, while I invisibly remain standing.

Tomas Transtromer

Life Eyes My Life Anxiety Dark Way

I think there are a lot of really funny things in 'The Descendants,' but there're a lot of different tones in that movie, in the same way that 'Transparent' has a lot of different tones.

Funny Think Way Same Transparent

I create homes that feel like a home - it could be a palace or a mansion - but each one has a comfortable feeling.

Home Feel Feeling Create Comfortable

I've been religiously reading the O. Henry Prize anthologies every year since college, when I first began trying to write stories. Many of the authors whose work I cherish the most were people I first learned about through The O. Henry Prize Stories - and then I'd go search for their books.

Work People College Reading Search

Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion's ever impatient consort.

Loyalty Throne Share Who Impatient

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

Thinking Hell Help Humanity Devils

I feel about me like I'm one of the working people, just like you, and everybody else. I don't fit the part of a celebrity.

People Me Feel You Celebrity Just

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

Failure People Heaven Done Others

I feel like being a good model for my children is something that I do take seriously.

Christy Turlington

Good Children Feel Seriously Take

I probably have a club in my hands 360 days a year, one way or another, playing with friends or just fiddling around or hitting balls.

Friends Hands Year Way Balls Club

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