Peter de Vries - Works - Short Stories and Humorous Pieces

Short Stories and Humorous Pieces

  • De Vries, Peter (1 January 1949). "Open House". The New Yorker 24 (45): 40–43. Short story.
  • De Vries, Peter (4 February 1950). "Jam Today". The New Yorker 25 (50): 34–35. Humorous piece about jazz snobs.

Read more about this topic:  Peter De Vries, Works

Famous quotes containing the words short stories, short, stories, humorous and/or pieces:

    “Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.”
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

    “O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave,
    The wise expect, the sorrowful invite,
    And all the good embrace, who know the grave
    A short dark passage to eternal light.”
    —Sir William Davenant (1606–1668)

    “Though Margery is stricken dumb
    If thrown in Madge’s way,
    We three make up a solitude;
    For none alive to-day
    Can know the stories that we know
    Or say the things we say....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.”
    —W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1966)

    “If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it’s false and useless.”
    —Crystal Eastman (1881–1928)