Nora Ephron Short Quotes

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I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.

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Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.

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

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The last four years of psychoanalysis are a waste of money.

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

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There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.

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If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters.

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A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it...

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

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You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

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The anecdote is a particularly dehumanising sort of descriptive narrative.

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Not having to worry about your hair any more is the secret upside of death.

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You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

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Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

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

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Journalists are interesting. They just aren't as interesting as the things they cover.

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If Sigmund Freud had watched Phil Donahue he would never have wondered what women want.

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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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Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.

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I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not.

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The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for 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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Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.

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Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine. I think of it as my own personal bride's disease.

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I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.

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