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Ira Levin Quotes

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

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

Travel, Tourists, Needs

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.

Thinking, Knowing, Important

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

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.

Real, Nice, Wife

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

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.

Confession, Said, Subjects

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

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.

White, House, Guy

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

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

Royalty, Checks

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.

Growing Up, Father, Thinking

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

Magazines, Gothic, Scene

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