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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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What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature.
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Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
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People rarely do what they don't want to.
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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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You ought to be ashamed, a woman in an Easter bonnet told Stein. Your race gave us our religion... From ancient polytheism, the belief in lots of gods, the woman continued a little more eruditely, the Hebrew nation led us on to the idea that there is only one. Which is just a step from the truth, said Stein.
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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 wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'.
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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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Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.
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We are nothing but a string of gut on a stick of bone riding this piece of astral soot for one piteous splinter of eternity.
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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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This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.
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... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.
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