“I believe that man must learn to live without those consolations called religious, which is own intelligence must by now have told him belong to the childhood of the race. Philosophy can really give us nothing permanent to believe either;… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature. — 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 children but… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the right track. — Peter De Vries 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 be the… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues.… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
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