A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, an… — Quoted

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“A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.”

Peter De Vries · Car

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Peter De Vries

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

Experience

Peter De Vries

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Marriage

Peter De Vries

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Marriage

Peter De Vries

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

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