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  1. Nora Ephron _ I Remember Nothing: and Other

    My religion is Get Over It.
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  2. Nora Ephron _ I Remember Nothing: and Other

    It was exciting in its own self-absorbed way, which is very much the essence of journalism: you truly believe that you are living at the center of the universe and that the world out there is on tenterhooks waiting for the next copy of whatever publication you work at.
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  3. Nora Ephron _ I Remember Nothing: and Other

    My idea of a perfect day is a frozen custard at Shake Shack and a walk in the park. {Followed by a Lactaid.} My idea of a perfect night is a good play and dinner at Orso. {But no garlic, or I won't be able to sleep.} The other day I found a bakery that bakes my favorite childhood cake, and it was everything I remembered: it made my week.
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  4. Nora Ephron _ I Remember Nothing: and Other

    You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be.
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  5. Nora Ephron _ I Remember Nothing: and Other

    From 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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  6. Nora Ephron _ I Remember Nothing: and Other

    I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.
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  7. Nora Ephron _ I Remember Nothing: and Other

    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}.
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  8. Nora Ephron _ I Remember Nothing: and Other

    Everybody dies. There's nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God. {Although there's no question a belief in God would come in handy. It would be great to think there's a plan, and that everything happens for a reason. I don't happen to believe that. And every time one of my friends says to me, "Everything happens for a reason," I would like to smack her.}
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