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Peter De Vries

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I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.


— Peter De Vries


#i #i love #love #paperwork #stand

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.


— Peter De Vries


#go #i #learn #school #some

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.


— Peter De Vries


#final #final proof #god #need #omnipotence

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.


— Peter De Vries


#marriage #produce #value

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.


— Peter De Vries


#each #enough #like #love #must

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.


— Peter De Vries


#car #children #deliver #ever after #forever

I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.


— Peter De Vries


#bored #death #go #good #i

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.


— Peter De Vries


#eating #emotional #escape #gluttony #sign

Life is a zoo in a jungle.


— Peter De Vries


#life #life is a #zoo

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.


— Peter De Vries


#food #museums #par #restaurants






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Did you know about Peter De Vries?

The New Yorker 25 (50): 34–35. He supported himself with a number of different jobs including those of vending machine operator toffee-apple salesman radio actor in the 1930s and editor for Poetry magazine from 1938 to 1944.   Humorous piece about jazz snobs.

Peter De Vries (February 27 1910 – September 28 1993) was an American editor and novelist known for his satiric wit.

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