429 Quotes by Nora Ephron

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    We’d grown up in an era when no one was divorced, and suddenly everyone was divorced.

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    I’m really not interested in women as victims. Look at me, I get the last laugh ’cause I get to be funny about it.

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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 mirror.

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    I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn’t work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable of being.

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    Getting older means you don’t have to shave your legs anymore.

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    One good thing I’d like to say about divorce is that it sometimes makes it possible for you to be a much better wife to your next husband because you have a place for your anger; it’s not directed at the person you’re currently with.

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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 point of view. I know exactly where I’m going as soon as I have the lead.

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    Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.

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    One of the great things about movies is that it’s just that short period of time. It’s a bubble. The last thing you want to know is that Elizabeth and Darcy had a fight over how to treat the servants!

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