Peter De Vries Quotes - Page 2

• We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother.

  Peter De Vries

  Adventure, Boredom, Pay

  Peter De Vries (2014). “Without a Stitch in Time: A Selection of the Best Humorous Short Pieces”, p.32, University of Chicago Press

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• Mírelo de este modo: El psicoanálisis es una moda permanente.

  Peter De Vries

  Looks, Modas, Manera

  1973 Forever Panting.

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• "Deberías avergonzarte", le dijo a Stein una mujer con un bonete de Pascua. "Tu raza nos dio nuestra religión...". "Del antiguo politeísmo, la creencia en muchos dioses", continuó la mujer un poco más eruditamente, "la nación hebrea nos llevó a la idea de que sólo hay uno". "Lo cual está a un paso de la verdad", dijo Stein.

  Peter De Vries

  Easter, Race, Ideas

  Peter De Vries (2012). “The Blood of the Lamb: A Novel”, p.207, University of Chicago Press

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• Sabemos que el cerebro humano es un dispositivo para evitar que los oídos rechinen entre sí.

  Peter De Vries

  Brain, Ears, Devices

  Comfort me with Apples Ch. 1

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• Time heals nothing — which should make us the better able to minister.

  Peter De Vries

  Time, Able, Ministers

  "The Blood of the Lamb: A Novel".

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• We are nothing but a string of gut on a stick of bone riding this piece of astral soot for one piteous splinter of eternity.

  Peter De Vries

  Riding, Splinters, Pieces

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• El matrimonio ha llevado a más de un hombre al sexo.

  Peter De Vries

  Sexo, Hombres, Impulsados

  Peter De Vries (2014). "El túnel del amor: A Novel", p.64, University of Chicago Press.

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• This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

  Peter De Vries

  May, Stuff, Irony

  "Mrs. Wallop".

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

  Peter De Vries

  Pain, Heart, Mark

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• Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.

  Peter De Vries

  Self, Abuse, Celibacy

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• Un político es un hombre que puede ser verborreico con menos palabras que nadie.

  Peter De Vries

  Hombres, Política, Político

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• Hay veces en que el desayuno parece la única cosa por la que merece la pena levantarse.

  Peter De Vries

  Mañana, Desayuno, Semanas

  Peter De Vries (1982). "Forever panting", Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'.

  Peter De Vries

  Hombres

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• Sex in marriage is like medicine. Three times a day for the first week. Then once a day for another week. Then once every three or four days till the condition clears up.

  Peter De Vries

  Sex, Medicine, Funny Marriage

  Peter De Vries (1968). “The Cat's Pajamas and Witch's Milk”

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• El problema de tratar a la gente como iguales es que lo primero que sabes es que pueden estar haciendo lo mismo contigo.

  Peter De Vries

  Gente, Mayo, Primeros

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• He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers, but those looking this complex life straight in the eye acquire a wealth of perception so composed of delicately balanced contradictions that they dread, or resent, the call to couch any part of it in a bland generalization. The vanity (if not outrage) of trying to cage this dance of atoms in a single definition may give the weariness of age with the cry of youth for answers the appearance of boredom.

  Peter De Vries

  Eye, Vanity, People

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• Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

  Peter De Vries

  Art, Food, Museums

  Peter De Vries (1982). “Madder Music”, Viking Press

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

  Peter De Vries

  Funny, Summer, School

  Peter De Vries (2014). “The Tunnel of Love: A Novel”, p.158, University of Chicago Press

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• No me impresionan los centros de la Ivy League. Por supuesto que gradúan a los mejores -- es todo lo que aceptan, dejando a otros el problema de educar al país. Te darán una educación como los bancos te dan dinero, siempre que les demuestres que no lo necesitas.

  Peter De Vries

  Inspirational, Country, Teenager

  Peter De Vries (1967). "El valle de la risa"

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• I think people love each other a little more than they hate each other ... Love has a slim hold on the human corporation, like fifty-one per cent, but it's enough.

  Peter De Vries

  Love, Hate, Thinking

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• What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.

  Peter De Vries

  Believe, People, Suffering

  Peter De Vries (2012). “The Blood of the Lamb: A Novel”, p.25, University of Chicago Press

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• Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.

  Peter De Vries

  Love, What Is Love, Blindness

  Peter De Vries (2014). “Comfort Me with Apples: A Novel”, p.28, Open Road Media

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

  Peter De Vries

  Father, Hate, Waiting

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Los vínculos matrimoniales son como cualquier otro vínculo: maduran lentamente.

  Peter De Vries

  Relación, Aniversario, Matrimonio

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• Antes de que la mente se quiebre o el corazón se rompa, se reúne como un reloj a punto de sonar. Incluso podría decirse que uno se recompone para desintegrarse.

  Peter De Vries

  Heart, Mind, Together

  Peter De Vries (1961). “The Blood of the Lamb”

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