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Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

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Nora Ephron
Age: 71 †
Born: 1941
Born: May 19
Died: 2012
Died: June 26
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When you're attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously. So what we think of as fate is just two neuroses knowing that they are a perfect match. - Sleepless in Seattle
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The hardest thing about writing is writing.
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American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.
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In the way that women forget the pain of childbirth, men forget that they cry in movies.
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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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In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.
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It's always a shock to the people who run studios when a movie that is for women is a hit. They have an infinite capacity to be shocked.
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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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