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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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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 a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.
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We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.
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Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
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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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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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This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.
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Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy.
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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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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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