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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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The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
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Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
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Marriage has driven more than one man to sex.
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Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.
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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
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A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.
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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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I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
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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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A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
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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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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 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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What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.
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Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy.
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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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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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