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He touched me...
Control myself and try to act
As if I remember my name
But he touched me... he touched me...
And suddenly nothing is the same!

Ira Levin

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

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

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.

Ira Levin

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

Ira Levin

Ira Levin

Born: August 27, 1929

Died: November 12, 2007 (aged 78)

Bio: Ira Marvin Levin was an American novelist, playwright, and songwriter, best-known for the 1968 novel Rosemary's Baby and the play Deathtrap. Five of his novels and three of his plays have been adapted to film.

Known for:

Rosemary's Baby (1967)
The Stepford Wives (1972)
Deathtrap (1978)
A Kiss Before Dying (1953)
The Boys from Brazil (1976)

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