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 Ephronโฆthe amount of maintenance involving hair is genuinely overwhelming. Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.
Nora EphronWashington is a city of locker-room boys, and all the old, outmoded notions apply: men and women are ushered to separate rooms after dinner, sex is dirty, and they are still serving onion-soup dip.
Nora EphronToo few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And Iโll say to working journalists: Do not stay journalists. Become screenwriters.
Nora EphronSome 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.
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