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Everybody dies. There's nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God. (Although there's no question a belief in God would come in handy. It would be great to think there's a plan, and that everything happens for a reason. I don't happen to believe that. And every time one of my friends says to me, Everything happens for a reason, I would like to smack her.)
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New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)
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Whenever someone says the words 'Our friendship is more important than this,' watch out, because it almost never is.
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You can't retrieve your life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).
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In a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.
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I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.
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On parenting:
A successful parent is one who raises a child who grows up and is able to pay for his or her own psychoanalysis.
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It seemed to me that the desire to get married—which, I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women—is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge, which is to be single again.
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No man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her…The sex thing is always out there so the friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.
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You can never have too much butter – that is my belief. If I have a religion, that's it,
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Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. Would anyone love me if I couldn't cook? I always thought cooking was part of the package: Step right up, it's Rachel Samstat, she's bright, she's funny and she can cook!
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Well, I'm gonna get out of bed every morning,... breathe in and out all day long. Then, after a while I won't have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning and breathe in and out... and, then after a while, I won't have to think about how I had it great and perfect for a while.
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Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
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When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was. Not better, necessarily; not worse, necessarily; but different.
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You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.
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It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are entering a third era, in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know, it just might work.
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Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together... and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home,... only to no home I'd ever known.... I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.
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I was so tired of seeing these stupid, cheerful books about ageing. One of them even has this whole thing in it about how you are going to have the greatest sex of your life in your sixties and seventies. Which is just garbage. I thought about it and realised that there was one circumstance that you could have the best sex of your life in your sixties and seventies. That would be if you had never had sex until you were 60 or 70.
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Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and it's our pathetic need for it that gets us into so much trouble.
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It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.
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Maintenance is what you have to do just so you can walk out the door knowing that if you go to the market and bump into a guy who once rejected you, you won't have to hide behind a stack of canned food. I don't mean to be too literal about this.
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The anecdote is a particularly dehumanising sort of descriptive narrative.
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If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters.
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That's another thing about being a certain age that I've noticed: I try as much as possible not to look in the mirror.
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I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.
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Born:
May 19, 1941
Died:
June 26, 2012
(aged 71)
Bio:
Nora Ephron was an American journalist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer, director, and blogger.
Known for:
Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
You've Got Mail (1998)
Julie & Julia (2009)
Silkwood (1983)
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