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From Quotes by Peter De Vries
- We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.
- I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo, "Were you calling…
- Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.
- I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to…
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