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Peter De Vries

American Novelist

Born: Feb 27, 1910

Died: Sep 28, 1993

Adult Another Food Like Love Marriage

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Life is a zoo in a jungle. Peter De Vries

Life Life Is A Jungle Zoo

We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through. Peter De Vries

Earth See Through Put Primarily Another

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. Peter De Vries

Love Character Marriage Personality Fall Live Difficulty Must

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

Food Sign Eating Something Emotional Gluttony Escape Us

Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse. Peter De Vries

Worst Celibacy Form

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

Love Paperwork Writer Being Stand

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

Good Soul Confession Sense Rather Only Remedy Than Coat

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart. Peter De Vries

Heart Human Heart Pain Mark Like Question Question Mark Human Turned

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

Art Food Par Restaurants Mural Museums

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music. Peter De Vries

Music Most Instruments Very Tuba Lower Certainly

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you. Peter De Vries

You Nothing Bites Seems Parenthood More Feeding Hand Times Than

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

Mother Car Once Deliver Forever Role Children After Suburban

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked. Peter De Vries

Me Everybody Hates Liked Because Universally

The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums. Peter De Vries

Food Par Restaurants Mural Museums

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning. Peter De Vries

Morning Every Nine See Inspired Write

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

Experience School Thinking Summer Some Learn Go Us

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