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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
- Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
- Peter de Vries
- I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
- Peter De Vries
- Life is a zoo in a jungle.
- Peter De Vries
- My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
- Peter De Vries
- Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
- Peter De Vries
- The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
- Peter De Vries
- There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
- Peter De Vries
- We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.
- Peter De Vries
- When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.
- Peter De Vries
- It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
- Peter De Vries, "The Mackerel Plaza," 1958
- I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.
- Peter De Vries, Comfort me with Apples (1956)
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