The Vale of Laughter Quotes

“I once tried drowning my sorrows, till I found out they could swim.”
― Peter De Vries, The Vale of Laughter

“A man has to believe in something, and I believe I'll have another drink.”
― Peter De Vries, The Vale of Laughter

“Call me, Ishmael.”
― Peter De Vries, The Vale of Laughter

“One is not entitled to contempt for something to which one is not equal.”
― Peter De Vries, The Vale of Laughter

“Romantic ardor is in basic principle Lethean. Its purpose is temporarily to blind us to one another; make us forget the low esteem in which we really hold one another, and in which we quite deserve to be held; the anesthetic administered to reason without which the race would not go on.”
― Peter De Vries, The Vale of Laughter