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Nora Ephron
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Nora Ephron
Age: 71 †
Born: 1941
Born: May 19
Died: 2012
Died: June 26
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Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.
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Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.
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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 have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are.
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Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.
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I’m really not interested in women as victims. Look at me, I get the last laugh ‘cause I get to be funny about it.
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The odd thing about this form of communication is you're more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want to say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many... somethings. So, thanks.
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[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.
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in a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.
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You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.
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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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In the way that women forget the pain of childbirth, men forget that they cry in movies.
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people in New Orleans really care about food, care about it passionately, can spend hours arguing over whether Antoine's is better than Galatoire's or the other way around ... in New Orleans, there is basically nothing to do but eat and then argue about it.
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I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.
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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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And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.
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Everybody dies. There's nothing you can do about it. Whether you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God.
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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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Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up.
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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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