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

Peter De Vries

Marriage

Children

Value

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

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

Life

Jungle

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

Peter De Vries

Chance

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

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

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

I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.

Peter De Vries

Death

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Peter De Vries

Eating

Gluttony

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.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Peter De Vries

Nostalgia

Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.