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Peter De Vries Quotes
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I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability
He advised people to have intellect, and to look beneath what he called "the epithelium of things," though he did discourage scrutiny of his own motives.
He was a lot like those Currier and Ives prints which, having outgrown them, one then laps the field of Sensibility to approach again from behind and see as "wonderful."
Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat longer for a paradox.
Time heals nothing-which should make us better able to minister.
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.
-Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy.
I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.
Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
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.
Inspirational Quote
Here is the secret of inspiration: tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
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Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right - instantly.
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Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
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You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.
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