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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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Nora Ephron
Age: 71 †
Born: 1941
Born: May 19
Died: 2012
Died: June 26
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You can blame Al Gore and you can blame Ralph Nader and you can blame George Bush, but I blame Bill [Clinton]. I just do. I just think he squandered his presidency the night that woman delivered that pizza to him, and if he hadn't, we wouldn't be where we are and there would be a lot of people who are alive today who aren't.
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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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Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.
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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 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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I actually believe in denial.
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You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).
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You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.
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People have only one way to be.
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One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older. I am, in fact, at this very moment gaining my looks.
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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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I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis.
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In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.
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So many of the conscious and unconscious ways men and women treat each other have to do with romantic and sexual fantasies that are deeply ingrained, not just in society but in literature. The women's movement may manage to clean up the mess in society, but I don't know whether it can ever clean up the mess in our minds.
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I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book... I felt alive and engaged and positively brilliant, bursting with ideas, brimming with memories of other books I've loved.
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You don't really have to believe what you write in a blog for more than the moment when you're writing it. You don't bring the same solemnity that you would bring to an actual essay.
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You can't call yourself a feminist if you don't believe in the right to abortion.
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What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
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