The idea of a Supreme Being ...

The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then pass a law saying, "Thou shalt not kill," is so monstrously, immeasurably, bottomlessly absurd that I am at a loss to understand how mankind has entertained or given it house room all this long.
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 Peter De Vries

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A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
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 Peter De Vries
I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo, "Were you calling me, dear?
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 Peter De Vries
Time heals nothing — which should make us the better able to minister.
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 Peter De Vries
Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.
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 Peter De Vries
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.
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 Peter De Vries