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Peter De Vries quotes

American Novelist February 27, 1910 – September 28, 1993

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Peter De Vries quote: "The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a..."
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. Peter De Vries
Peter De Vries quote: "We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough,..."
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. Peter De Vries
Peter De Vries quote: "I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork."
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork. Peter De Vries
He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers, but those looking this complex life straight in the eye acquire a wealth of perception so composed of delicately balanced contradictions that they dread, or resent, the call to couch any part of it in a bland generalization. The vanity (if not outrage) of trying to cage this dance of atoms in a single definition may give the weariness of age with the cry of... Peter De Vries
Peter De Vries quote: "Life is a zoo in a jungle."
Life is a zoo in a jungle. Peter De Vries
Peter De Vries quote: "I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired..."
I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning. Peter De Vries
Peter De Vries quote: "Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to..."
Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring. Peter De Vries
Peter De Vries quote: "I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any."
I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any. Peter De Vries
Peter De Vries quote: "Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from..."
Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection. Peter De Vries
Peter De Vries quote: "I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us..."
I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school. Peter De Vries
Peter De Vries quote: "A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically..."
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. Peter De Vries
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. Peter De Vries
Peter De Vries quote: "The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but..."
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. Peter De Vries
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. Peter De Vries
Peter De Vries quote: "There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than..."
There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you. Peter De Vries

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