Stepford Wives Ira Levin Quotes

#1. I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one solid scene doesn't have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#2. Oh, don't you see? There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought.

L.M. Montgomery

#3. Why is it that the most fundamental life lesson - LIVE! - is the only one I continually forget to put into practice?

Megan McCafferty

#4. Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise.

Oliver Goldsmith

#5. No. Frank Socrates doesn't have conditions, because he's dead. He loves me unconditionally.

A.S. King

#6. Knowledge is not information, it's transformation.

Rajneesh

#7. We don't need "trip to heaven" books. We have an actual God-ordained vision of heaven and future events.

Todd Friel

#8. The act of trusting your heart to another is a leap of faith. You can never know if your love shall last forever, or if the other might crush your heart to dust. It is a risk, the biggest you shall ever undertake. All you can do is take it one day at a time, but never take it for granted.

Shane K.P. O'Neill

#9. This book is my response to these developments: It is an appreciation of the flourishing that was the humanistic treasure of the modern era. It is also a plea to restore what has been lost and not to reject out of hand the modern values that inspired the broad prosperity of modern societies.

Edmund S. Phelps

#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.

Ira Levin

#11. Every aspect of your life will be enlivened when you start to think and communicate with your heart and mind in cohesive coordinated harmony.

Steven Redhead

#12. Suicide does not end the chances of life getting worse. Suicide eliminates the possibility of it ever getting better.

Vic Fuentes

#13. If one is on the spot, disorders are seen as they spring up, and one can quickly remedy them; but if one is not at hand, they are heard of only when they are great, and then one can no longer remedy them.

W.K. Marriott