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"30 Peter De Vries Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 27 February 1910. Died: 28 September 1993 | Editor | Novelist |

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Adult Children Marriage Produce
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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.

Combination Like Locked LockedUp
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Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Eating Emotional Escape Gluttony
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A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

After Car Children Deliver
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The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance

Again Alive Another Back
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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
Any Bonds Like Matrimony
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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Character Difficulty Fall Live
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I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Being ILove Love Paperwork
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Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.

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

Food Mural Museums Par
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The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.

Certainly Instruments Lower Most
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When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

Bear Begin Broken Homes
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My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Could Father Hate Hated
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It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

Exist Final God He
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Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Nostalgia Used
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Life is a zoo in a jungle

Jungle Life LifeIsA Zoo
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The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.
Less Like Pay Rich
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Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
Because Everybody Hates Liked
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I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.

Any Bored Death Go
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The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
Food Mural Museums Par
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Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

Heart Human HumanHeart Like
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There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

Bites Feeding Hand More
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I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.
Every ISee IWrite Inspired
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I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

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

Cookie Diction Like Out
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We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

Another Earth Primarily Put
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We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.

Another Each Enough Like
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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.

Acts Been End God
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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.

Coat Confession Good Only
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Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Adult Arrive Before Children
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Peter De Vries Quotes & Sayings