Top 33 Delia Ephron Quotes
#1. In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.
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#2. I love it that I'm standing alone, it doesn't bother me, actually I prefer it, actually I don't give a shit. I am a superior being in an alien world. No, in a world of red-faced aliens. That thought tickled her, but only for a minute. Mainly she longed to feel that she wasn't invisible.
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#3. In life one rarely knows which remarks of the hundreds uttered in the course of a day will turn out to be auspicious. In fiction, foreshadowing is planted and flagged in some (hopefully or desperately) subtle way, drama demands it.
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#4. New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them: Oh, that's who I am.
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#5. I have one rule I live by: Only do what you can do. That neans you're never looking outside for what's popular; you're always looking inside for what's true.
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#6. One quarter of what you buy will turn out to be mistakes.
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#7. If you think about something else hard enough, you can mostly control your feelings.
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#8. In your standard-issue family, of which few remain, but on which our expectations are still based, there are parents and there are children. The way you know which are which, aside from certain size and age differences and despite any behavior similarities, is that the parents are the bossy ones.
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#9. Someone will always tell you what you want to hear.
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#11. Your basic extended family today includes your ex-husband or -wife, your ex's new mate, your new mate, possibly your new mate's ex and any new mate that your new mate's ex has acquired.
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#12. It consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other.
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#13. Writing is how I understand everything that happens. Writing is the only way I know to move on.
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#14. Wanting to be liked can get in the way of truth.
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#15. Again from a distance, Sukie was once again struck by her mother's chic and how different things can seem from far away, how there's more than one truth, the faraway truth and the truth close up.
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#16. Maybe the truth can't be buried. Or maybe it can't stay buried. Maybe the very nature of truth is that it will ultimately reveal itself.
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#17. There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail.
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#18. As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s.
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#19. Clothes have special power. I'll always remember the raspberry colored v-necked silk sweater I was wearing on my husband and my first date. If I hadn't been wearing that sweater that night, would any of it have happened?
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#20. Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.
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#21. In the family I grew up in, being called boring was like being called an ax murderer.
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#22. If you are a stepparent, rush right out and get yourself a dog. Because it's very nice to have someone in the house that loves you.
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#23. She has bitten into a crisp juicy apple and wondered if the bite and the thought were connected
one never knew what went together, and seemingly random acts could be cosmically related.
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#24. Am I being too critical? That's what happens when you feel shitty about yourself. You turn into a bitch.
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#25. I heard her surprise and then the sigh as we began the rhythm of connection and self-absorption, the miracle of sex.
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#26. For me, having it all - if one wants to define it at all - is the magical time when what you want and what you have match up.
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#27. I'm planning to give up worrying. I want to, but I'm worried I won't be able to.
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#28. A man doesn't recognize his own wife. Because she's happy.
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#29. One cannot overstate the potential for hysteria on a movie set. Everyone always acts as if making the movie is as important as eradicating malaria.
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#30. You are a long trail through the woods," she said. "And in the woods people prefer a shortcut." Our
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#31. Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five, and the worst actually began to happen.
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#32. On the subject of spinach: divide into little piles. Rearrange again into new piles. After five of six maneuvers, sit back and say you are full.
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#33. Who cared that he couldn't spell? She was a good-enough speller for both of them. With luck, their children would take after her.
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