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Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that everyone is faking it.
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I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she just read and loved. She is my phantom limb, and I just can't believe I'm here without her. - on losing her best friend
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You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be.
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When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
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The one thing I would like to get across about my whole feeling regarding high school is how I was when I was fifteen. Gawky. Always a hem hanging down, or strap loose, or a pimple on my chin. I never knew what to do with my hair. I was a mess. And I still carry that fifteen-year-old girl around now. A piece of me still believes I'm the girl nobody dances with.
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Success comes and goes. Your flops stay with you for life.
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When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.
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The amount of maintenance involving hair is genuinely overwhelming. Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.
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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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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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The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
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Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.
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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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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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If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters.
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Vera said: Why do you feel you have to turn everything into a story? So I told her why. Because if I tell the story, I control the version. Because if I tell the story, I can make you laugh, and I would rather have you laugh at me than feel sorry for me. Because if I tell the story, it doesn't hurt as much. Because if I tell the story, I can get on with it.
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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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You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.
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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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Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
John Betjeman
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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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