Peter De Vries Quotes
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Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful.
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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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The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own.
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I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
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I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to the stars, but learning that one may stay where one is.
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Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.
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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
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This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.
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Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me?
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"You ought to be ashamed," a woman in an Easter bonnet told Stein. "Your race gave us our religion..." "From ancient polytheism, the belief in lots of gods," the woman continued a little more eruditely, "the Hebrew nation led us on to the idea that there is only one." "Which is just a step from the truth," said Stein.
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Marriage has driven more than one man to sex.
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We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.
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The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.
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What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.
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My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
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There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for.
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A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
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I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'.
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I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability
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Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy.
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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.
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I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.
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The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then pass a law saying, "Thou shalt not kill," is so monstrously, immeasurably, bottomlessly absurd that I am at a loss to understand how mankind has entertained or given it house room all this long.
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What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much more congenial - or at least less horrible. Prove to me that there is a God and I will really begin to despair.
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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
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We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother.
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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.
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Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat longer for a paradox.
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We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.
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Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
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