All Peter De Vries Quotes
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
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Humor
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The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
Peter De Vries
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Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.
Peter De Vries
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I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.
Peter De Vries
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Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
Peter De Vries
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I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.
Peter De Vries
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Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
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The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.
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The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
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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.
Peter De Vries
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A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
Peter De Vries
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I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
Peter De Vries
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