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Peter De Vries
American
Novelist
About the author
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,
American
Novelist
#God
#Hope
#Will
#End
#Providence
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Peter De Vries,
American
Novelist
#Nostalgia
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,
American
Novelist
#Sense
#Soul
#Confession
Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
Peter De Vries,
American
Novelist
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
Peter De Vries,
American
Novelist
#Eating
#Gluttony
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
Peter De Vries,
American
Novelist
#Love
#Being
#Writer
I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.
Peter De Vries,
American
Novelist
#Death
I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.
Peter De Vries,
American
Novelist
#Thinking
#Experience
#School
#Summer
Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.
Peter De Vries,
American
Novelist
#Heart
#Question
#Pain
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
Peter De Vries,
American
Novelist
#God
#Order
#Proof
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
Peter De Vries,
American
Novelist
#Chance
Life is a zoo in a jungle.
Peter De Vries,
American
Novelist
#Life
#Jungle
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Peter De Vries,
American
Novelist
#Television
#Father
#Hate
I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.
Peter De Vries,
American
Novelist
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries,
American
Novelist
#Children
#Value
#Marriage
Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.
Peter De Vries,
American
Novelist
#Words
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.
Peter De Vries,
American
Novelist
#Children
#Value
#Marriage
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.
Peter De Vries,
American
Novelist
#Victims
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.
Peter De Vries,
American
Novelist
#Love
#Nothing
The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
Peter De Vries,
American
Novelist
#Food
#Museums
#Restaurants
There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.
Peter De Vries,
American
Novelist
#Nothing
#Parenthood
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
Peter De Vries,
American
Novelist
#Matrimony
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
Peter De Vries,
American
Novelist
#Universe
The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.
Peter De Vries,
American
Novelist
#Music
The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.
Peter De Vries,
American
Novelist
#Taxes
Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
Peter De Vries,
American
Novelist
#Food
#Museums
#Restaurants
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
Peter De Vries,
American
Novelist
#Character
#Love
#Difficulty
#Marriage
#Personality
We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.
Peter De Vries,
American
Novelist
#Earth
Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.
Peter De Vries,
American
Novelist
#Self
#Celibacy
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
Peter De Vries,
American
Novelist
#Children
#Car
#Mother