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Success comes and goes. Your flops stay with you for life.

Nora Ephron

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Nora Ephron
Age: 71 †
Born: 1941
Born: May 19
Died: 2012
Died: June 26
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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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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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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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I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.
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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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If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.
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…the amount of maintenance involving hair is genuinely overwhelming. Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.
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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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That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I have for many years been puzzled by the persistence of Hugh Hefner. Why is he still here?
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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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My parents were screenwriters, and they had four daughters and we all write. So that's amazing. Talk about powerful parents. My mother always said to us, Everything is copy.
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Too few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And I’ll say to working journalists: Do not stay journalists. Become screenwriters.
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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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