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.

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Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

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

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

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

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Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

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

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There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.

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We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.

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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.

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