You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it). Nora Ephron More Quotes by Nora Ephron More Quotes From Nora Ephron ... when I finish reading People, I always feel that I have just spent four days in Los Angeles. Women's Wear Daily at least makes me feel dirty; People makes me feel that I haven't read or learned or seen anything at all. Nora Ephron reading people dirty Everybody dies. There's nothing you can do about it. Whether you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God. Nora Ephron almonds six believe Reading is the unbelievably healthy way Nora Ephron reading opposites reality It's so interesting that we think we know the rules to this game, this total hypothetical game called, "Would you," "If you had it to do over." It's not out there. Nora Ephron games interesting thinking People have only one way to be. Nora Ephron one-way people way I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis. Nora Ephron parent successful children All that means is that it wasn't personal to you. But it was personal to me. Nora Ephron meg mail A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it. Nora Ephron always-alone men book One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older. I am, in fact, at this very moment gaining my looks. Nora Ephron get-better beautiful looks I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies. Nora Ephron pie want fun [On George W. Bush:] How is it possible that the president is off on vacation and the vice president is, too? Not that it matters that much if the president is on vacation; on some level, the president is always on vacation. Nora Ephron vacation vices president The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat. Nora Ephron dutch achievement movement Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape. Nora Ephron reading opposites book Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and it's our pathetic need for it that gets us into so much trouble. Nora Ephron guy trouble needs Hollywood is a very male business, and it has in vast portions of it - the whole action movie part of it might as well be the United States Army in 1943 in that the ethics of it are, you know, boot camp and action movies and guns and explosions and all the rest of it, and that - so that means that about 50% of the business is not only pretty much closed off to women, but women don't even wanna be in it! Nora Ephron army gun mean I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not. Nora Ephron honestly becoming desire Whenever someone says the words 'Our friendship is more important than this,' watch out, because it almost never is. Nora Ephron important friendship watches When something like this happens, you suddenly have no sense of reality at all. You have lost a piece of your past. The infidelity itself is small potatoes compared to the low-level brain damage that results when a whole chunk of your life turns out to have been completely different from what you thought it was. It becomes impossible to look back at anything that's happened ... without wondering what was really going on. Nora Ephron infidelity reality past Success comes and goes. Your flops stay with you for life. Nora Ephron comes-and-goes failure ... the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but it doesn't happen every time or even every other time, and when it does happen, I am truly beside myself. Nora Ephron doe wonderful book
