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Book Quotes by Nora Ephron
- Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.
- A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it...
- I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book... I felt alive and engaged and positively brilliant,…
- If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.
- ... the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but it doesn't happen…
- Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something…
- So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?
- When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how…
- From the essay "Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again" 1. Journalists sometimes make things up. 2.…
- There is something called the rapture of the deep, and it refers to what happens when a deep-sea diver spends too much time at the…
- Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life - well, valuable, but small - and sometimes I wonder, do I do it…
- Everyone always asks, was he mad at you for writing the book? and I have to say, Yes, yes, he was. He still is. It…
- I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she just read and…
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