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Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

Peter De Vries

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Peter De Vries
Age: 83 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 27
Died: 1993
Died: September 28
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Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy.
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A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
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Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
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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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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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Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?
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This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.
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Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.
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I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
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It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
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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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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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All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.
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A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.
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What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature.
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