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

Quote by Peter De Vries

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

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

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine...

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine...

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

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

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

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

We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.

We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.

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

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

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine...

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine...

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

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

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination...

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination...

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we...

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we...

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.

The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is...

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is...

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I...

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I...

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

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

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually...

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually...

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.