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I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

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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What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.
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Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
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Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?
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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 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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Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.
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I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'.
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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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A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
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All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.
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Marriage has driven more than one man to sex.
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There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.
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Mrs Thicknesse and I agreed that a business of his own was probably the only solution for him because he was obviously unemployable.
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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
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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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I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability
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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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