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You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

Nora Ephron

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Nora Ephron
Age: 71 †
Born: 1941
Born: May 19
Died: 2012
Died: June 26
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Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four.
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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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[On George W. Bush:] How is it possible that the president is off on vacation and the vice president is, too? Not that it matters that much if the president is on vacation on some level, the president is always on vacation.
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Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
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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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Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.
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The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over. Enough about that. The point is that for a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me. And now it's not.
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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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Maintenance is what you have to do just so you can walk out the door knowing that if you go to the market and bump into a guy who once rejected you, you won't have to hide behind a stack of canned food. I don't mean to be too literal about this.
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I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it?
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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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Getting older means you don't have to shave your legs anymore.
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In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.
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You can never have too much butter - that is my belief. If I have a religion, that's it.
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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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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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Why do people write books that say it's better to be older than to be younger? It's not better. Even if you have all your marbles, you're constantly reaching for the name of the person you met the day before yesterday.
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Believe me, if I looked good, it's not an accident.
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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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It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, was I really in love or was I just kidding myself? Was I really in love or was I just pretending he was the man of my dreams? Was I really in love or was I just desperate?
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