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Are you pro- or anti-macassar?

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Peter De Vries
Age: 83 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 27
Died: 1993
Died: September 28
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I think people love each other a little more than they hate each other ... Love has a slim hold on the human corporation, like fifty-one per cent, but it's enough.
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Sex in marriage is like medicine. Three times a day for the first week. Then once a day for another week. Then once every three or four days till the condition clears up.
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I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
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Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.
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Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my sentence without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams somewhat longer for a paradox.
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I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.
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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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Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy.
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Marriage has driven more than one man to sex.
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What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.
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I tried to write worse but it was no good my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged.
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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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This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.
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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 suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability
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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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Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
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All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.
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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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