Peter De Vries Quotes

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.
Peter De Vries

Music, Tuba, Lower

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
Peter De Vries

Universe, Safe, Locked

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.
Peter De Vries

Broken, Longer, Begin

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.
Peter De Vries

Words, Cookie, Shapes

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.
Peter De Vries

Marriage, Children, Enough

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Nationality: American

Born: February 27, 1910

Died: September 28, 1993

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