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Quotes by Peter De Vries

Sweet popular music is claptrap in the main, and the main is where it belongs.
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Sweet popular music is claptrap in the main, and the main is where it belongs.
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
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There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
If you want my opinion on the mystery of life and all that, I can give it to you in a nutshell: the universe is like a safe to which there is a key. But the key is locked up in the safe.
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If you want my opinion on the mystery of life and all that, I can give it to you in a nutshell: the universe is like a safe to which there is a key. But the key is locked up in the safe.
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children; obstetrically once and by car forever after.
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A suburban mother's role is to deliver children; obstetrically once and by car forever after.
You can't be happy with a woman who pronounces both d's in Wednesday.
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You can't be happy with a woman who pronounces both d's in Wednesday.
Time heals nothing which should make us better able to minister.
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Time heals nothing which should make us better able to minister.
We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.
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We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.
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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.
Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.
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Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.
We must love one another, yes, yes, that’s all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.
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We must love one another, yes, yes, that’s all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.
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