American - Novelist | February 27, 1910 - September 28, 1993
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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We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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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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Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.
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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.
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Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
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