Ira Levin Quotes

#1. Did you lose the game? Losing's the same as winning; you know that, don't you?" The

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#2. They were confident and cunning. They weren't mucking around looking for nuclear weapon secret sloppy seconds in America. They could care less about America. They were busy with the whole world domination thing.

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#3. Sex, yes; sexism, no.

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#4. What's the going price for a stay-in-the-kitchen wife with big boobs and no demands?

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#5. No, thanks, we're not keen on cat pix.

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

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#7. Someday, he thought, I would like to meet a monster who looked like a monster.

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#8. They gave Mrs. Cortez a check for five hundred and eighty-three dollars - a month's rent in advance and a month's rent as security -

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#9. 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.

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#10. 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.

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#11. They promised me you wouldn't be hurt," he said. "And you haven't been, really. I mean, suppose you'd had a baby and lost it; wouldn't it be the same? And we're getting so much in return, Ro.

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#12. 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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#13. You are only partly alive.

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#14. Philosophers have warned us: if we forget the past, we are doomed to repeat it.

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#15. What we are probably given is a mixture of truth and untruth. It's anybody's guess as to which part is which and how much there is of each.

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#16. I'd like to have a spice garden some day," Rosemary said. "Out of the city, of course. If Guy ever gets a movie offer we're going to grab it and go live in Los Angeles. I'm a country girl at heart.

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#17. A false-hearted lover is worse than a thief.
For a thief will just rob you and take what you have,
But a false-hearted lover will lead you to the grave.
And the grave will decay you and turn you to dust;
Not one boy in a hundred a poor girl can trust.

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#18. That green stuff outside is grass, and the yellow stuff coming down on it is sunshine.

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#19. Bread now, or cake later

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

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

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#22. They never stop, these Stepford wives. They something something all their lives. Work like robots. Yes, that would fit. They work like robots all their lives.

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#23. 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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#24. Like so many unhappinesses, this one had begun with silence in the place of honest open talk.

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#25. And you'll put a deposit on the house tomorrow?

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#26. Could anyone know when an actor was true and not acting?

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#27. Better to live in doubt than to die in certainty.

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