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Peter De Vries Quotations

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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.
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.
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
The murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.
Peter De Vries - Comfort me with Apples (1956)
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Life is a zoo in a jungle.
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.
We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.

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