Nora Ephron

I'll have what she's having

— Nora Ephron

“MARIE    I’m saying that the right man for you might be out there right now and if you don’t grab him, someone else…

— Nora Ephron

We all look good for our age. Except for our necks.

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You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting…

— Nora Ephron

Women are being considered as candidates for vice-president of the United States because it is the worst job in America. It's amazing…

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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…

— Nora Ephron

When something like this happens, you suddenly have no sense of reality at all. You have lost a piece of your past.…

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What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

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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…

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I don't write a word of the article until I have the lead. It just sets the whole tone - the whole…

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I definitely divide my life into decades. Almost every ten years, something in my work life has changed. My twenties were my…

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“I can make a case that I regret nothing. After all, most of my mistakes turned out to be things I survived,…

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Working as a journalist is exactly like being the wallflower at an orgy. I always seem to find myself at a perfectly…

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“How much worse can it get than finishing dinner, having him reach over, pull a hair out of my head, and start…

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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…

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I am living in the Google years, no question of that. And there are advantages to it. When you forget something, you…

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Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. And I don't mean by using it as…

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That's another thing about being a certain age that I've noticed: I try as much as possible not to look in the…

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I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old…

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It's so interesting that we think we know the rules to this game, this total hypothetical game called, "Would you," "If you…

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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…

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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…

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“He loved Thelma, Jonathan said, he had never loved anyone but Thelma, he had loved Thelma for nineteen years and would always…

— Nora Ephron

“As Harry puts it, men and women can never be friends because 'the sex part always gets in the way.”

— Nora Ephron

It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.

— Nora Ephron