You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter, and you can't put things off thinking you'll get to them someday. If you really want to do them, you better do them. There are simply too many people getting sick, and sooner or later you will. So I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.
Nora EphronReading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.
Nora EphronWhen you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. But when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh.
Nora EphronYou can never have too much butter - that is my belief. If I have a religion, that's it.
Nora EphronWhen your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.
Nora EphronFrom the essay "Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again" 1. Journalists sometimes make things up. 2. Journalists sometimes get things wrong. 3. Almost all books that are published as memoirs were initially written as novels, and then the agent/editor said, This might work better as a memoir. 6. Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.
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