Peter De Vries
Novelist
1910-02-27
Books by Peter De Vries
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Quotes by Peter De Vries
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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
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I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
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I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
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Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.
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The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.
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Life is a zoo in a jungle.
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Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
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People rarely do what they don't want to.
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-Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy.
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We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother.
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I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.
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What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature.
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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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Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
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Are you pro- or anti-macassar?
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Try the Lamentations of Jeremiah. They always pick me up.
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Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign that something is eating us.
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The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
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Exercise is an unnatural act.
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