American - Novelist | February 27, 1910 - September 28, 1993
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries
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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.
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A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
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I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
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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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My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
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It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
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I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.
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The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
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Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.
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There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.
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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.
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