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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Peter De Vries
Inspirational, Marriage, Children
Tunnel of Love (1954) ch. 8

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

Peter De Vries
Family, Children, Humorous

"You don't believe in God," I said to Stein. "God is a word banging around in the human nervous system. He exists about as much as Santa Claus." "Santa Claus has had a tremendous influence, exist or not." "For children." "Lots of saints have died for God with a courage that's hardly childish." "That's part of the horror. It's all a fantasy. It's all for nothing."

Peter De Vries
Children, Believe, Atheism
Peter De Vries (2012). “The Blood of the Lamb: A Novel”, p.182, University of Chicago Press

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