Ira Levin Quotes

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

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#3. Bread now, or cake later

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#4. The Lord's presence always brings blessings. These will not always be material things, for the joy of communing with God is in itself a blessing.

Samuel Ngewa

#5. I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.

Bill Gates

#6. Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

John Wooden

#7. I think movies probably are a mirror in some way so we can see ourselves in them.

Richard Gere

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

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

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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. A red backless slipper slowly slid off her foot...and Franz, bending down after it, plunged softly into dark slumber.

Vladimir Nabokov

#13. The places I visit in any given week are my home, so when I'm somewhere that feels good to me, it's a real game changer. If a place causes me to have a strong reaction, be it positive or negative, it'll often find its way into my music.

Ron Pope

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

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

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#16. I'm not a big crier.

Nelly

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

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

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#19. That's the result of the black cloud on baseball, .. Until it's rid of steroids, people are naturally going to think that.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. Sex, yes; sexism, no.

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#23. I call my golden retriever Cara my 'white wolf.' She's changed my attitude and made me write this book where the wolf is the hero, not the villain.

Debi Gliori

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

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#25. The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.

Princess Diana

#26. One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. They pulled out their swords and shot one another. One deaf cop, on the beat heard the noise, and came and shot the two dead boys.

Holly Black

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

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

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

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

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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. You are only partly alive.

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

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#37. 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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#38. 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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