Peter De Vries

Peter De Vries

"I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork."
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"I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork."
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"A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after."
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"Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums."
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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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"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly."
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"Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us."
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"The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music."
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"The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance."
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"Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked."
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"We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another."
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"Gluttony is an emotional escape a sign something is eating us."
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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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"The rich aren't like us they pay less taxes."
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"Life is a zoo in a jungle."
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"If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist - I feel like countering with the word seriousist."
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"Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults."
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"Let us hope...that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring."
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"There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you."
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"Nostalgia ain't what it used to be."
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"Deep down, he's shallow."
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