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Nora Ephron
Age: 71 †
Born: 1941
Born: May 19
Died: 2012
Died: June 26
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So, twice a week, I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It’s cheaper by far than psychoanalysis, and much more uplifting.
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Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.
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A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it.
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Journalists are interesting. They just aren't as interesting as the things they cover.
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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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I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.
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When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.
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The empty nest is underrated.
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I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
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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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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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Getting older means you don't have to shave your legs anymore.
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The function of a blog is on some level to start a conversation that you're not involved in any more because you've already had your say. That thing of coming right off the news - did you see what I saw this morning, can you believe it? - has a kind of fun appeal.
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The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.
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Plastic surgery is a way for people to buy themselves a few years before they have to truly confront what ageing is, which of course is not that your looks are falling apart, but that you are falling apart and some-day you will have fallen apart and ceased to exist.
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Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
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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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If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.
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The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.
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