Peter De Vries Quotes
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My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Peter De Vries
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Author Details:
Type:
Novelist Quotes
Category:
American Novelist Quotes
Date of Birth:
February 27, 1910
Date of Death:
September 28, 1993
Nationality:
American
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Ernest Hemingway
Richard Bach
Chuck Palahniuk
William Faulkner
Jack Kerouac
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Truman Capote
Gore Vidal
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Select Peter De Vries Quotations:
I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.
Peter De Vries
Life is a zoo in a jungle.
Peter De Vries
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Peter De Vries
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
Peter De Vries
We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.
Peter De Vries
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.
Peter De Vries
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
Peter De Vries
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Quote Keywords:

Could,
Father,
Hate,
Hated,
Invented,
Radio,
Television,
Too,
Wait
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Dictionary Links:

Could,
Father,
Hate,
Hated,
Invented,
Radio,
Too,
Wait
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All Peter De Vries Quotations:
A suburban mother's role is to...
Celibacy is the worst form of...
Confession is good for the soul...
Everybody hates me because I'm so...
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a...
I love being a writer. What...
I wanted to be bored to...
I was thinking that we all...
I write when I'm inspired, and...
It is the final proof of...
Let us hope, that a kind...
Life is a zoo in a jungle.
Murals in restaurants are on a...
My father hated radio and could...
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Pain is the question mark turned...
The bonds of matrimony are like...
The difficulty with marriage is that...
The murals in restaurants are on...
The rich aren't like us, they...
The satirist shoots to kill while...
The tuba is certainly the most...
The universe is like a safe...
The value of marriage is not...
There are times when parenthood seems...
We are not primarily put on...
We must love one another, yes...
When I can no longer bear...
Who of us is mature enough...
Words fashioned with somewhat over precise...
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