Nora Ephron - Life Quotes

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Let's face it: part of being a grownup is that every day you have to choose between going out at night or staying home, and it is one of life's unhappy truths that there is not enough time to do both.

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The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.

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You are the butter to my bread, you are the breath to my life.

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Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.

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The infidelity itself is small potatoes compared to the low-level brain damage that results when a whole chunk of your life turns out to have been completely different from what you thought it was.

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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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Success comes and goes. Your flops stay with you for life.

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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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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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Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.

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I recognize that printing pictures of corpses raises all sorts of problems about taste and titillation and sensationalism; the fact is, however, that people die. Death happens to be one of life's main events. And it is irresponsible and more than that, inaccurate, for newspapers to fail to show it.

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When something like this happens, you suddenly have no sense of reality at all. You have lost a piece of your past. The infidelity itself is small potatoes compared to the low-level brain damage that results when a whole chunk of your life turns out to have been completely different from what you thought it was. It becomes impossible to look back at anything that's happened... without wondering what was really going on.

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