Peter Vries Quotes

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"The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums"

Peter Vries Topics: Food

"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 Topics: Colleges And Universities

"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 Topics: Compassion Home

"A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car for ever after"

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"The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music."

Peter Vries Topics: American Novelist Music

"We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through"

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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"

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"Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked."

Peter Vries Topics: Popularity

"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 Topics: Wit

"Nostalgia isn't what it used to be."

Peter Vries Topics: American Novelist Funny Nostalgia Short

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

Peter Vries Topics: American Novelist

"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"

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"Life is a zoo in a jungle."

Peter Vries Topics: Funny Life

"The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe."

Peter Vries Topics: American Novelist Universe

"We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other."

Peter Vries Topics: Love

"My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too."

Peter Vries Topics: American Novelist Hate

"The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults."

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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 Topics: Man

"Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart."

Peter Vries Topics: American Novelist

"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 Topics: Soul

"Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter."

Peter Vries Topics: American Novelist Words

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