| I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork. |
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- Peter De Vries |
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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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- Peter De Vries |
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| The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly. |
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- Peter De Vries |
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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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- Peter De Vries |
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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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- Peter De Vries |
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| My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. |
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- Peter De Vries |
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| Life is a zoo in a jungle. |
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- Peter De Vries |
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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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- Peter De Vries |
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| A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. |
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- Peter De Vries |
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| Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. |
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- Peter De Vries |
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