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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. "
― Ira Levin , The Boys from Brazil
22 " 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. "
― Ira Levin , A Kiss Before Dying
23 " Better to live in doubt than to die in certainty. "
24 " philosophers have warned us: if we forget the past, we are doomed to repeat it. "
25 " 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. "
― Ira Levin , Rosemary's Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
26 " That green stuff outside is grass, and the yellow stuff coming down on it is sunshine. "
― Ira Levin , The Stepford Wives
27 " Did you lose the game? Losing’s the same as winning; you know that, don’t you?” The "
― Ira Levin , This Perfect Day
28 " The thing to do was kill it. Obviously. "
29 " One great difference between good writing, that readers overlook, and bad writing, that they fail to notice, has to do with the number of rewrites and revisions usually required by the former. It isn’t at all easy to write clear, declarative prose—transparency evolves from ruthless cutting and trimming and is hard work—while lumpy, tangle-footed writing flows from the pen as if inspired by the Muse. "
30 " Today the combat takes a different shape; instead of wishing to put man in a prison, woman endeavors to escape from one; she no longer seeks to drag him into the realms of immanence but to emerge, herself, into the light of transcendence. Now the attitude of the males creates a new conflict: it is with a bad grace that the man lets her go. "
31 " I say in my talks it takes two things to make it happen again, a new Hitler and social conditions like in the thirties. But that's not true. It takes three things: the Hitler, the conditions, and the people to follow the Hitler.And don't you think he'd find them?No, not enough of them. I really think people are better and smarter now, not so much thinking their leaders are God. The television makes a big difference. "
32 " No, thanks, we’re not keen on cat pix. "
33 " It is a paradox that the more egalitarian society becomes, the more important an individual’s genes will be. Where opportunity is completely open – should a child’s background ever become entirely irrelevant in their attainment – innate advantages will still create division. "
34 " The egocentricity which motivated it was not that of the spoiled, but of the too little spoiled; the lonely. Had she been an artist she would have painted a self-portrait; instead she decorated two rooms, charging them with objects which some visitor, some day, would recognize and understand. And through that understanding he would divine all the capacities and longings she had found in herself and was unable to communicate. "
35 " The baby kicked like a demon "
36 " Joanna's period was late but came, thank God and the Pill. "
37 " Some day, he thought, I would like to meet a monster who LOOKS like a monster. "
38 " 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— "
39 " 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. "
40 " Padded Wagon. The painters came on Wednesday the "