"When I can no longer bear to think……" — Peter De Vries
"When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones."
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75 Quotes by Peter De Vries
Peter De Vries has 75 quotes on this site.
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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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Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back…
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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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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All…
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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a…
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What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will…
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The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate…
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Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear…
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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the…
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I watched 'The Muppet Movie' obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a…
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the…
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