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" With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie. "
Nora Ephron
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" When 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. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke. "
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" I have now been married to my third husband for more than 20 years. But when you've had children with someone you're divorced from, divorce defines everything; it's the lurking fact, a slice of anger in the pie of your brain. "
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" The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would like to have come up with something profound, but I haven't. "
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" At the age of 55, you will get a saggy roll just above your waist, even if you are painfully thin. "
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" I buy a lot of cookbooks. Some of them you just kind of read, and you try one recipe, and it doesn't really work. So then you don't go back to it. The new Ina Garten cookbook, which is called 'Back to Basics,' I have not had a failure with. It is the most fantastic cookbook. I think I bought 20 copies of it for friends. "
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" Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be. "
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" Nothing like mashed potatoes when you're feeling blue. Nothing like getting into bed with a bowl of hot mashed potatoes already loaded with butter, and methodically adding a thin, cold slice of butter to every forkful. "
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" Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy. "
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" All I do when I write scripts is think about food: 'Have I worked long enough to justify a walk to the kitchen?' "
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" I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times. "
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" I have been forgetting things for years - at least since I was in my 30s. I know this because I wrote something about it at the time; I have proof. Of course I can't remember exactly where I wrote about it or when, but I could probably hunt it up if I had to. "
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" I just bring a black turtleneck sweater everywhere - it's the greatest purchase of my life. Period. "
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" I was always proud of being tough-minded, and I think I still am, but in my old age I've got a little softer in the head, and that's all right. "
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" What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us. "
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" What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. "
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" The best divorce is the kind where there are no children. That was my first divorce. You walk out the door and you never look back. "
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" One good thing I'd like to say about divorce is that it sometimes makes it possible for you to be a much better wife to your next husband because you have a place for your anger - it's not directed at the person you're currently with. "
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" My second divorce was the worst kind of divorce. There were two children; one had just been born. My husband was in love with someone else. "
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" I think that readers believe that a writer becomes friends with the people he interviews and writes about - and I think there are some writers who do that - but that hasn't happened to me. I do think it's dangerous because then you write the article to please them, which is a terrible error. "
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" As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date. "
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" If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. "
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" The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again. "
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" When you're young, you think that clothes are almost magical, and that if you wear the right thing - to school, to the prom, on the date, etc. - something's going to happen. Black, it's the anti-magical thing. It comes from the recognition that it is not going to be 'the' dress. "
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" When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. "
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" I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn't much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don't let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it's sad to be over 60. "
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