I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo, "Were you calling me, dear?
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. - Peter De Vries
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
- Peter De Vries
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. - Peter De Vries
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
Life is a zoo in a jungle. - Peter De Vries
Life is a zoo in a jungle.
Look at it this way: Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad. - Peter De Vries
Look at it this way: Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad.
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. - Peter De Vries
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork. - Peter De Vries
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. - Peter De Vries
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through. - Peter De Vries
We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. - Peter De Vries
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
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