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Peter De Vries Quote: “Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.”

51. “Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.”

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Peter De Vries Quote: “The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.”

52. “The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.”

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Peter De Vries Quote: “Exercise is an unnatural act.”

53. “Exercise is an unnatural act.”

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Peter De Vries Quote: “All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.”

54. “All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.”

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Peter De Vries Quote: “Look at it this way: Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad.”

55. “Look at it this way: Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad.”

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Peter De Vries Quote: “Mrs Thicknesse and I agreed that a business of his own was probably the only solution for him because he was obviously unemployable.”

56. “Mrs Thicknesse and I agreed that a business of his own was probably the only solution for him because he was obviously unemployable.”

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Peter De Vries Quote: “The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.”

57. “The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.”

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Peter De Vries Quote: “We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother.”

58. “We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother.”

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Peter De Vries Quote: “Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end.”

59. “Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end.”

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Peter De Vries Quote: “Try the Lamentations of Jeremiah. They always pick me up.”

60. “Try the Lamentations of Jeremiah. They always pick me up.”

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Peter De Vries Quote: “Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?”

61. “Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?”

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Peter De Vries Quote: “The rich aren’t like us, they pay less taxes.”

62. “The rich aren’t like us, they pay less taxes.”

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Peter De Vries Quote: “What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature.”

63. “What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature.”

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Peter De Vries Quote: “My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.”

64. “My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.”

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Peter De Vries Quote: “How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?”

65. “How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?”

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Peter De Vries Quote: “A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.”

66. “A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.”

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Peter De Vries Quote: “The greatest experience open to man then is the recovery of the commonplace. Coffee in the morning and whiskeys in the evening again without fear. Books to read without that shadow falling across the page.”

67. “The greatest experience open to man then is the recovery of the commonplace. Coffee in the morning and whiskeys in the evening again without fear. Books to read without that shadow falling across the page.”

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Peter De Vries Quote: “People rarely do what they don’t want to.”

68. “People rarely do what they don’t want to.”

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Peter De Vries Quote: “I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged.”

69. “I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged.”

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Peter De Vries Quote: “I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability.”

70. “I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability.”

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Peter De Vries Quote: “I believe that man must learn to live without those consolations called religious, which his own intelligence must by now have told him belong to the childhood of the race.”

71. “I believe that man must learn to live without those consolations called religious, which his own intelligence must by now have told him belong to the childhood of the race.”

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Peter De Vries Quote: “So we were back in the Children’s Pavilion, and there was again the familiar scene: the mothers with their nearly dead, the false face of mercy, the Slaughter of the Innocents.”

72. “So we were back in the Children’s Pavilion, and there was again the familiar scene: the mothers with their nearly dead, the false face of mercy, the Slaughter of the Innocents.”

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Peter De Vries Quote: “You believe what you must in order to stave off the conviction that it’s all a tale told by an idiot.”

73. “You believe what you must in order to stave off the conviction that it’s all a tale told by an idiot.”

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Peter De Vries Quote: “I once tried drowning my sorrows, till I found out they could swim.”

74. “I once tried drowning my sorrows, till I found out they could swim.”

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Peter De Vries Quote: “It might even be said one pulls himself together to disintegrate. The scattered particles of self – love, wood thrush calling, homework sums, broken nerves, rag dolls, one Phi Betta Kappa key, gold stars, lamplight smiles, night cries, and the shambles of contemplation – are collected for a split moment like scraps of shrapnel before they explode.”

75. “It might even be said one pulls himself together to disintegrate. The scattered particles of self – love, wood thrush calling, homework sums, broken nerves, rag dolls, one Phi Betta Kappa key, gold stars, lamplight smiles, night cries, and the shambles of contemplation – are collected for a split moment like scraps of shrapnel before they explode.”

— Peter De Vries

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