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More Quotes by Nora Ephron
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 is one of the most fascinating things to me about the whole episode: he cheated on me, and then got to behave as if he was the one who had been wronged because I wrote about it! I mean, it's not as if I wasn't a writer. It's not as if I hadn't often written about myself. I'd even written about him. What did he think was going to happen? That I would take a vow of silence for the first time in my life? "
Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.
You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.
When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.
Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.
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?
I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.
You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.
It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, was I really in love or was I just kidding myself? Was I really in love or was I just pretending he was the man of my dreams? Was I really in love or was I just desperate?
Eat every meal as if it's your last; when the last one comes, you probably won't be very hungry.
