Delia Ephron Quotes

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Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be — they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.

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Someone will always tell you what you want to hear.

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One cannot overstate the potential for hysteria on a movie set. Everyone always acts as if making the movie is as important as eradicating malaria.

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With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

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And a quick glance in the mirror turns out to be a mistake. Oh God, is that my face?

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Doyouwantogoona—Who is this? Oh, I have the wrong number.

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One quarter of what you buy will turn out to be mistakes.

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In the family I grew up in, being called boring was like being called an ax murderer.

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Writing is how I understand everything that happens. Writing is the only way I know to move on.

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I'm planning to give up worrying. I want to, but I'm worried I won't be able to.

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There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail.

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Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five, and the worst actually began to happen.

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Your basic extended family today includes your ex-husband or -wife, your ex's new mate, your new mate, possibly your new mate's ex and any new mate that your new mate's ex has acquired.

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New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them: Oh, that's who I am.

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In your standard-issue family, of which few remain, but on which our expectations are still based, there are parents and there are children. The way you know which are which, aside from certain size and age differences and despite any behavior similarities, is that the parents are the bossy ones.

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