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"The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums" — Peter Vries
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"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." — Peter Vries
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Colleges And Universities   

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"When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones." — Peter Vries
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Compassion    Home   

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"A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car for ever after" — Peter Vries
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"The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music." — Peter Vries
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American Novelist    Music   

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"We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through" — Peter Vries
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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" — Peter Vries
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"Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked." — Peter Vries
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"You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?" — Peter Vries
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"Nostalgia isn't what it used to be." — Peter Vries
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American Novelist    Funny    Nostalgia    Short   

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"I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school." — Peter Vries
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American Novelist   

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"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" — Peter Vries
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"Life is a zoo in a jungle." — Peter Vries
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Funny    Life   

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"The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe." — Peter Vries
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American Novelist    Universe   

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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." — Peter Vries
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"My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too." — Peter Vries
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American Novelist    Hate   

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"The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults." — Peter Vries
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"Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the direction he came" — Peter Vries
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Man   

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"Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart." — Peter Vries
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"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" — Peter Vries
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"Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter." — Peter Vries
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American Novelist    Words   

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