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Ira Levin QUOTES

1 " 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 , The Stepford Wives

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

― Ira Levin , Rosemary's Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)

3 " 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. "

― Ira Levin , This Perfect Day

4 " I want you to know I won't always be here,' Fertility says, 'but I'll always find you. "

― Ira Levin , The Stepford Wives

5 " 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. "

― Ira Levin , This Perfect Day

6 " ...
In her immaculate kitchen she said, 'Yes, I've changed. I realized I was being awfully sloppy and self-indulgent. It's no disgrace to be a good homemaker. I've decided to do my job conscientiously, the way Dave does his, and to be more careful about my appearance. Are you sure you don't want a sandwich?'
Joanna shook her head. 'Bobbie,' she said, 'I— Don't you see what's happened? Whatever's around here—it's got you, the way it got Charmaine!'
Bobbie smiled at her. 'Nothing's got me,' she said. 'There's nothing around. That was a lot of nonsense. Stepford's a fine healthful place to live.'
... "

― Ira Levin , The Stepford Wives

7 " Les gens qui ont besoin de plus qu une valise ne sont pas de vrais voyageurs, ce sont des touristes. "

― Ira Levin , Rosemary's Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)

8 " Sylvia called to apologize - she had been passed up for a promotion she damn well knew she deserved - and Charmaine called to say they'd had a great time and to postpone a tentative Tuesday tennis date. "Ed's got a bee in his bonnet," she said. "He's taking a few days off, we're putting Merrill with the DaCostas - you don't know them, lucky you - and he and I are going to 'rediscover each other.' That means he chases me around the bed. And my period's not till next week, God damn it."

"Why not let him catch you?" Joanna said.

"Oh God," Charmaine said. "Look, I just don't enjoy having a big cock shoved into me, that's all. Never have and never will. And I'm not a lez either, because I tried it and that's no big deal. I'm just not interested in sex. I don't think any woman is, really, not even Pisces women. Are you?"

"Well I'm not a nympho," Joanna said, "but I'm interested in it, sure I am."

"Really, or do you just feel you're supposed to be?"

"Really."

"Well, to each his own," Charmaine said. "

― Ira Levin

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

― Ira Levin , Rosemary's Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)

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. "

― Ira Levin , The Stepford Wives

11 " You are only partly alive. "

― Ira Levin , This Perfect Day

12 " Someday, he thought, I would like to meet a monster who looked like a monster. "

― Ira Levin , The Boys from Brazil

13 " could anyone know when an actor was true and not acting? "

― Ira Levin , Rosemary's Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)

14 " What’s the going price for a stay-in-the-kitchen wife with big boobs and no demands? "

― Ira Levin , The Stepford Wives

15 " Anyone who needs more than one suitcase,” he said as he double-locked their door, “is a tourist, not a traveler. "

― Ira Levin , Rosemary's Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)

16 " Sex, yes; sexism, no. "

― Ira Levin , The Stepford Wives

17 " 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 , The Stepford Wives

18 " A chance to sit quietly and find out who you are; where you've been and where you're going. "

― Ira Levin , Rosemary's Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)

19 " Bread now, or cake later "

― Ira Levin , A Kiss Before Dying

20 " When you're older you'll come to realize that acts of kindness are few and far between in this world of ours. "

― Ira Levin , Rosemary's Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)