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Peter De Vries Quotes
«When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.»
Author: Peter De Vries
(Editor, Linguist, Novelist, Satirist)
| About:
Compassion
| Keywords:
homes, intact, The Victims, victims
«There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you»
Author: Peter De Vries
(Editor, Linguist, Novelist, Satirist)
| About:
Parenthood
| Keywords:
bites, feeding, parenthood
«A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car for ever after»
Author: Peter De Vries
(Editor, Linguist, Novelist, Satirist)
| About:
Children,
Mothers
| Keywords:
deliver, Ever After, suburban
«Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.»
Author: Peter De Vries
(Editor, Linguist, Novelist, Satirist)
| About:
Celibacy
| Keywords:
abuse, celibacy, self-abuse
«I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.»
Author: Peter De Vries
(Editor, Linguist, Novelist, Satirist)
| Keywords:
Banks, educating, establishments, graduate, graduating, impressed, ivy, Ivy League, league, Left Bank, Others The
«The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.»
Author: Peter De Vries
(Editor, Linguist, Novelist, Satirist)
| Keywords:
bowel, instruments, intestinal, lower, tuba