Ira Levin quotes
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“Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler”
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“Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness - a more satisfying kind, I think, even if it turned out to be a sad kind.”
-- Ira LevinSource : Ira Levin (2011). “This Perfect Day”, p.114, Open Road Media
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“You're not going to get any true confessions out of me," she said. "I'm a Leo, and our thing is changing the subject.”
-- Ira LevinSource : Ira Levin (1972). “The Stepford Wives: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated
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“That’s what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. That’s what they all were, all the Stepford wives: actresses in commercials, pleased with detergents and floor wax, with cleansers, shampoos, and deodorants. Pretty actresses, big in the bosom but small in the talent, playing housewives unconvincingly, too nicey-nice to be real.”
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“I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.”
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“Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.”
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“I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.”
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“Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse had signed a lease on a five-room apartment in a geometric white house on First Avenue when they received word, from a woman named Mrs. Cortez, that a four-room apartment in the Bramford had become available.”
-- Ira LevinSource : Ira Levin (1985). “Three by Ira Levin”, Random House (NY)
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“That’s what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. That’s what they all were, all the Stepford wives: actresses in commercials, pleased with detergents and floor wax, with cleansers, shampoos, and deodorants. Pretty actresses, big in the bosom but small in the talent, playing housewives unconvincingly, too nicey-nice to be real.”
-- Ira LevinSource : Ira Levin (1972). “The Stepford Wives: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated
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“I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.”
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Source : "In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks: And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-aged White Guy". Book by Adam Carolla, edition.cnn.com. 2010.
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“Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.”
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“We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.”
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Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by A.L. Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
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