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People have only one way to be.

Nora Ephron

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Nora Ephron
Age: 71 †
Born: 1941
Born: May 19
Died: 2012
Died: June 26
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Success comes and goes. Your flops stay with you for life.
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We weren't meant to have futures, we were meant to marry them. We weren't meant to have politics, or careers that mattered, or opinions, or lives we were meant to marry them. If you wanted to be an architect, you married an architect.
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Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.
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Believe me, if I looked good, it's not an accident.
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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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Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.
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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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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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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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Having been married so many times, I know that one of the few things I am an expert in is falling in love.
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The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.
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The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women.
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Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.
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Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.
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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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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
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You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.
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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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Journalists are interesting. They just aren't as interesting as the things they cover.
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You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.
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