Peter De Vries was an American editor and novelist known for his satiric wit.
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“The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.”
Peter De Vries
“I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning”
“The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.”
“We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.”
“Life is a zoo in a jungle.”
“I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.”
“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.”
“Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.”
“We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through”
“The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.”