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"There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you." Peter De Vries
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Parents And Parenting   

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"The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character." Peter Vries
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Character    Marriage   

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"I love being a writer, what I can't stand is the paperwork." Peter De Vries
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American Novelist    Writers And Writing   

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"There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you." Peter De Vries
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American Novelist   

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"I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning." Peter De Vries
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American Novelist   

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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 De Vries
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American Novelist   

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"Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums." Peter De Vries
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American Novelist   

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"The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums." Peter De 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 De Vries
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American Novelist   

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"Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, "What's in it for me?"" Peter Vries
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"There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you" Peter Vries
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"Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse." Peter Vries
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Abuse    American Novelist   

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"We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel." Peter Vries
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"I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning" Peter Vries
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"Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us." Peter Vries
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Food And Eating   

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"The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance." Peter Vries
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American Novelist   

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"It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us." Peter Vries
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Salvation   

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"The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes" Peter Vries
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"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly." Peter Vries
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"The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. Bit the combination is locked up in the safe." Peter De 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 De Vries
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American Novelist    Confession   



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