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More Quotes by Nora Ephron
Here are some questions I am constantly noodling over: Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live twenty more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? Do you work as hard as you can, or do you slow down to smell the roses? And where do carbohydrates fit into all this? Are we really all going to spend our last years avoiding bread, especially now that bread in American is so unbelievable delicious? And what about chocolate?
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
And so, Thanksgiving. Its the most amazing holiday. Just think about it — it's a miracle that once a year so many millions of Americans sit down to exactly the same meal as one another, exactly the same meal they grew up eating, and exactly the same meal they ate a year earlier. The turkey. The sweet potatoes. The stuffing. The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we all can agree so vehemently about? I don't think so.
Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four.
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.
Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.
Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.
Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.
I think if you're lucky enough to find a voice in whatever you do, that voice will come sneaking out no matter what.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
