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Journalists are interesting. They just aren't as interesting as the things they cover.

Nora Ephron

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Nora Ephron
Age: 71 †
Born: 1941
Born: May 19
Died: 2012
Died: June 26
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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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Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.
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When you're attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously. So what we think of as fate is just two neuroses knowing that they are a perfect match. - Sleepless in Seattle
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I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.
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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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You don't really have to believe what you write in a blog for more than the moment when you're writing it. You don't bring the same solemnity that you would bring to an actual essay.
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Success comes and goes. Your flops stay with you for life.
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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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Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
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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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It had better be quirky or perverse or thoughtful enough so that you hit some chord in them. I mean we've all read pieces where we thought, 'Oh, who gives a damn.'
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I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.
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What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick!
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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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No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core of romanticism or sentiment that's had a few chips nicked into it.
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Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble.
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If there is a Nora Ephron signature anything it is that there's slightly too much food. I have a friend whose mantra is: You must choose. And I believe the exact opposite: I think you should always have at least four desserts that are kind of fighting with each other.
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Getting older means you don't have to shave your legs anymore.
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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 Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women.
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