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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

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

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My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

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

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The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.

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I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.

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I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

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

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Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.

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Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: February 27th, 1910

Died: September 28th, 1993

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