So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? Nora Ephron More Quotes by Nora Ephron More Quotes From Nora Ephron 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. Nora Ephron lasts laughing looks I am living in the Google years, no question of that. And there are advantages to it. When you forget something, you can whip out your iPhone and go to Google. The Senior Moment has become the Google moment, and it has a much nicer, hipper, younger, more contemporary sound, doesn't it? By handling the obligations of the search mechanism, you almost prove you can keep up.... You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it). Nora Ephron senior iphone years Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life - well, valuable, but small - and sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? I don't really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void. So good night, dear void. - You've Got Mail Nora Ephron good-night brave book Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together... and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home... only to no home I'd ever known... I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic. - Sleepless in Seattle Nora Ephron home romantic hands In the way that women forget the pain of childbirth, men forget that they cry in movies. Nora Ephron pain men way Well, I'm gonna get out of bed every morning... breathe in and out all day long. Then, after a while I won't have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning and breathe in and out... and, then after a while, I won't have to think about how I had it great and perfect for a while. - Sleepless in Seattle Nora Ephron morning long thinking I'll have what she's having Nora Ephron Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble. Nora Ephron response trouble men That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie. Nora Ephron problem want love-you I think you often have that sense when you write--that if you can spot something in yourself and set it down on paper, you're free of it. And you're not, of course; you've just managed to set it down on paper, that's all. Nora Ephron paper writing thinking Maintenance is what you have to do just so you can walk out the door knowing that if you go to the market and bump into a guy who once rejected you, you won't have to hide behind a stack of canned food. I don't mean to be too literal about this. Nora Ephron knowing doors mean It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much. Nora Ephron get-over easier thinking I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic. Nora Ephron movie-love romantic hands Why do people write books that say it's better to be older than to be younger? It's not better. Even if you have all your marbles, you're constantly reaching for the name of the person you met the day before yesterday. Nora Ephron writing jobs book I actually believe in denial. Nora Ephron denial believe If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan. Nora Ephron swans monogamy ifs Getting older means you don't have to shave your legs anymore. Nora Ephron getting-older legs mean I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms. Nora Ephron bangs form typewriters I have for many years been puzzled by the persistence of Hugh Hefner. Why is he still here? Nora Ephron persistence stills years Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine. Nora Ephron women memorable food