There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you. — Peter De Vries Child Copy Share Image
Time heals nothing — which should make us the better able to minister. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. — Peter De Vries Eating Copy Share Image
What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for ... — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school. — Peter De Vries Education Copy Share Image
I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce… — Peter De Vries Children Copy Share Image
Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a… — Peter De Vries Confession Copy Share Image
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
“Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of [parenthood] is not that adults produce… — Peter De Vries Children Copy Share Image
Mrs Thicknesse and I agreed that a business of his own was probably the only solution for him because he was obviously… — Peter De Vries Business Copy Share Image
I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration:… — Peter De Vries Conclusion Copy Share Image
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
"You ought to be ashamed," a woman in an Easter bonnet told Stein. "Your race gave us our religion..." "From ancient polytheism,… — Peter De Vries Ancient Copy Share Image
The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to… — Peter De Vries Absurd Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements… — Peter De Vries Creation Copy Share Image
“We live this life by a kind of conspiracy of grace: the common assumption, or pretense, that human existence is 'good' or… — Peter De Vries Conspiracy Copy Share Image
I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to… — Peter De Vries Country Copy Share Image
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
You don't believe in God," I said to Stein. "God is a word banging around in the human nervous system. He exists… — Peter De Vries Atheism Copy Share Image
What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to… — Peter De Vries Blind Copy Share Image
“How I hate this world. I would like to tear it apart with my own two hands if I could. I would… — Peter De Vries Grief Copy Share Image
“I believe that man must learn to live without those consolations called religious, which is own intelligence must by now have told… — Peter De Vries Adventure Copy Share Image
He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers,… — Peter De Vries Age Copy Share Image
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. — Peter De Vries Adults Copy Share Image
We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school. — Peter De Vries Education Copy Share Image
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. — Peter De Vries Beginning Copy Share Image
I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'. — Peter De Vries Funny Copy Share Image
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