Peter De Vries Quotes

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• When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.
• I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.
• We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.
• We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.
• 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?
• 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…
• Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
• Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the direction he came.
• Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end.
• Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.
• Sex in marriage is like medicine. Three times a day for the first week. Then once a day for another week. Then once every three…
• We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.
• Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.
• The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.
• Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.
• 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…
• Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?
• How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?
• Mrs Thicknesse and I agreed that a business of his own was probably the only solution for him because he was obviously unemployable.
• 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. Could…

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