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~ Nora Ephron Quote
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
~ Nora Ephron Quote
We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy, and the era when happiness was a dry martini, and now we have come to the era when happiness is "knowing what your uterus looks like."
~ Nora Ephron Quote
As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
~ Nora Ephron Quote
I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.
~ Nora Ephron Quote
It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter-century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work.
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It seemed to me that the desire to get married - which, I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again
~ Nora Ephron Quote
What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
~ Nora Ephron Quote
Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.
~ Nora Ephron Quote
I always read the last page of a book first, so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.
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In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.
~ Nora Ephron Quote
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
~ Nora Ephron Quote
To state the obvious, romantic comedies have to be funny and they have to be romantic. But one of the most important things, for me anyway, is that they be about two strong people finding their way to love.
~ Nora Ephron Quote
The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.
~ Nora Ephron Quote
Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that everyone is faking it
~ Nora Ephron Quote