"Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf……" — Peter De Vries
"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."
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Peter De Vries
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75 Quotes by Peter De Vries
Peter De Vries has 75 quotes on this site.
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When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the…
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I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.
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We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my…
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We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.
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Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask.…
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We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.…
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Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
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Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end.
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Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under…
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Sex in marriage is like medicine. Three times a day for the first week. Then once a day for another…
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We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.
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Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.
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Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing…
— Willa Cather
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The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never…
— Ernest Rutherford
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It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of…
— Carl Jung
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The brain seems to be made up of a bewildering complexity of parts, and the cells within the parts seem…
— Unknown Author
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The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same…
— George Bernard Shaw
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You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest…
— Jean Baudrillard
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I reject karma and rebirth not only because I find them unintelligible, but because I believe they obscure and distort…
— Stephen Batchelor
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Perhaps our task in this shaky, fast-changing, bewildering world in which we live is to make music, at first with…
— Itzhak Perlman
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Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and to feel connected with others. Instead, we often contract,…
— Sharon Salzberg
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The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and…
— Frank Rich
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The most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work he imposes upon himself,…
— Lin Yutang
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