"Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked".
.... Peter De Vries (1910-93), American editor (The New Yorker), satirist and novelist.
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De Vries is one of the best comic novelists that America has ever produced, and comic novelists do poorly over the long run of literary history. Other than Mark Twain, Ring Lardner, and perhaps Dawn Powell, Americans have tended to discard their humorists after a generation
ReplyDelete"probably the funniest writer on religion ever"
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