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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 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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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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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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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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Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
Peter De Vries
Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.
Peter De Vries
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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Marriage has driven more than one man to sex.
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What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature.
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Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy.
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A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.
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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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People rarely do what they don't want to.
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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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A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
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What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.
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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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Are you pro- or anti-macassar?
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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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