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Peter De Vries Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 27, 1910 - September 28, 1993

Topics

Marriage Children Value Produce

Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.

Jez Butterworth

Time Looking Back Looking Back Been

Wherever we've gone around the world, we've found quite significant gaps: the holy texts, no matter which one you turn to, has ambiguity in it around slavery. That, we knew, was being used as justification by slavers all over the world.

Slavery World You Matter Over Turn

I think, in this country, if you work 40 hours a week, and you work hard, you ought to be able to afford an apartment somewhere.

John Hickenlooper

Work Work Hard Think Week You Hard

Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.

Day I Can Desk Days Working Hours

Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.

Love Poetry Short Create Possible

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

Michael Shermer

Historical Myth Fact Literary Plato

I love Devo. There's nothing not to like.

Love Nothing Like I Love

I always knew I wanted to be in television when I was a kid, and I knew I wanted to model.

Television Kid Always Model Knew

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what define us as a species. When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting.

I Am Empathy Reading Think Behavior

We all have our secrets. We all have our vulnerabilities.

Secrets Our Vulnerabilities

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Arthur C. Clarke

Technology Society Will Out Lived

Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited... It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.

Purpose Right Amendment Whatever

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