Ira Levin Quotes

• Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler

  Ira Levin

  Travel, Tourists, Needs

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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.

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  Thinking, Knowing, Important

  Ira Levin (2011). “This Perfect Day”, p.114, Open Road Media

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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 Levin

  Real, Nice, Wife

  Ira Levin (1972). “The Stepford Wives: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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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 Levin

  Confession, Said, Subjects

  Ira Levin (1972). “The Stepford Wives: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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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 Levin

  White, House, Guy

  Ira Levin (1985). “Three by Ira Levin”, Random House (NY)

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• I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.

  Ira Levin

  Royalty, Checks

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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.

  Ira Levin

  Growing Up, Father, Thinking

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• Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.

  Ira Levin

  Magazines, Gothic, Scene

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