“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, quote from This Perfect Day
“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, quote from This Perfect Day
“Did you lose the game? Losing’s the same as winning; you know that, don’t you?” The”
― Ira Levin, quote from This Perfect Day
“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.”
― Ira Levin, quote from This Perfect Day
“Wszystko, o czym mówisz, wszystko, o czym myślisz, było już kiedyś powiedziane i pomyślane. I wprowadzone w czyn. Kilkanaście razy.”
― Ira Levin, quote from This Perfect Day
“My też musimy wypełnić nasze zadanie, co oznacza między innymi pilne oglądanie telewizji i śmierć w wieku 62 lat. A cała wolność, o której możemy marzyć, to fajka, parę dowcipów i trochę nadprogramowego pieprzenia. Nie traćmy tego, co mamy, dobrze?”
― Ira Levin, quote from This Perfect Day
Ira Levin
Born place: in The Bronx, New York City, New York, The United States
Born date August 27, 1929
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“ایرانیها همیشه سوئیس را اوج مدنیت تصور کردهاند: کشوری کوچک و تمیز که لازم نیست رانندگان اتوبوس بلیتها را کنترل کنند چون همه مردم درستکار هستند. به علاوه سوئیس هیچ وقت از ایرانیها استقبال نکرده که این هم جاذبهای میسازد مثل باقی چیزهای سختیاب”
― Firoozeh Dumas, quote from Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
“She took it all in and was completely, utterly, shocked. Vampires did exist. Was she one of them?”
― Morgan Rice, quote from Turned
“Someone had your pain to take.” “And Deep volunteered?” For some reason Kat found tears in her eyes. “Why?” Mother L’rin put a hand on Kat’s arm and looked into her eyes. “Why do you think, child?” she said gently. “I d-don’t know.” Kat sniffed and blotted her eyes against the long sleeve of her toga-dress. “I honestly don’t. He hates me. Or at least he doesn’t like me very much.” “Himself he hates,” Mother L’rin said, releasing her arm. “Cleansed of his hate he must be before you bond.” “But I can’t bond with him and Lock. Don’t you see? It would never work out.”
― Evangeline Anderson, quote from Sought
“In my mind's eye, my chess pieces had grown into lines of dark-skinned men marching forward, being beaten by a white army and crumpling one by one into my father's waiting arms, bloodstains blossoming across their shoulders. (32)”
― Padma Venkatraman, quote from Climbing the Stairs
“I realized then that only diseases and not honesty and integrity are passed down to the next generation through genes.”
― Sudha Murty, quote from The Day I Stopped Drinking Milk
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