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Book cover for Cleopatra and Frankenstein
“Do you paint every day?” asked Frank. “Everyone always asks that. I try to. But it’s hard.” “Why?” “Sometimes the process is like … Okay, you know when you’re tidying up a cupboard—” “Is that a closet?” “Yes, you American, a closet. First, ...more
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Jonathan Safran Foer
“Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.”
Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

John Steinbeck
“All great and precious things are lonely.”
John Steinbeck, East of Eden

Nora Ephron
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
Nora Ephron

Nora Ephron
“Here are some questions I am constantly noodling over: Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live twenty more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? Do you work as hard as you can, or do you slow down to smell the roses? And where do carbohydrates fit into all this? Are we really all going to spend our last years avoiding bread, especially now that bread in American is so unbelievable delicious? And what about chocolate?”
Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

Nora Ephron
“There is something called the rapture of the deep, and it refers to what happens when a deep-sea diver spends too much time at the bottom of the ocean and can't tell which way is up. When he surfaces, he's liable to have a condition called the bends, where the body can't adapt to the oxygen levels in the atmosphere. All of this happens to me when I surface from a great book.”
Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

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