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That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.

Nora Ephron

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Nora Ephron
Age: 71 †
Born: 1941
Born: May 19
Died: 2012
Died: June 26
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I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity [Wellesley] stuck us all with, a kind of glazed politeness in the face of boredom and stupidity. Tolerance, in the worst sense of the word. How marvelous it would have been to go to a women's college that encouraged impoliteness, that rewarded aggression, that encouraged argument.
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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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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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Believe me, if I looked good, it's not an accident.
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The hardest thing about writing is writing.
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If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.
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If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.
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My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
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Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.
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I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.
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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 have for many years been puzzled by the persistence of Hugh Hefner. Why is he still here?
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Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun.
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If there is a Nora Ephron signature anything it is that there's slightly too much food. I have a friend whose mantra is: You must choose. And I believe the exact opposite: I think you should always have at least four desserts that are kind of fighting with each other.
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Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
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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 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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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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