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The truth is, most of the genuinely tragic episodes of lost food are things that are somewhat outside the reach of the home cook, even a home cook like me who has been known to overreach from time to time.
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I’ve always believed that the concept of the Jewish princess was invented by a Jewish prince who couldn’t get his wife to fetch him the butter. I was not raised as
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Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life - well, valuable, but small - and sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave?
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Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.
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Of course, everyone has something wrong with him, that’s for sure, but this guy probably had something really wrong. Perhaps
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But the main problem with our marriages was not that our husbands wouldn’t share the housework but that we were unbelievably irritable young women and our husbands irritated us unbelievably. - The D Word
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My parents had drinks and there were crudit�s for us- although they were not called crudit�s at the time, they were called carrots and celery.
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I think I was so entranced with being a couple that I didn’t even notice that the person I thought I was a couple with thought he was a couple with someone else.
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We know in one part of our brains that we are all going to die, but on some level we don’t quite believe it.
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People always say that once it goes away you forget the pain. It's a cliche of childbirth. You forget the pain. I don;t happen to agree. I remember the pain. What you really forget is love.
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Death doesn't really feel eventual or inevitable. It still feels... avoidable somehow. But it's not. We know in one part of our brains that we are all going to die, but on some level we don't quite believe it.
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Sometimes I think that not having to worry a bout your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.
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Men … I hate them. I’ve always hated them. You wonder why I always hang around with women and never with men, it’s because men do things like this.
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Writers are cannibals. They really are. They are predators, and if you are friends with them, and if you say anything funny at dinner, or if anything good happens to you, you are in big trouble.
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I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are." --Nora Ephron
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You fall in love with someone, and part of what you love about him are the differences between you; and then you get married and the differences start to drive you crazy.
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Checked out the mirror to see if I looked older, or sadder, or wiser. I didn’t; I just looked tired.
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He loved Thelma, Jonathan said, he had never loved anyone but Thelma, he had loved Thelma for nineteen years and would always love her even though Thelma didn't give a rat's ass about him and never had.
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I must try this again, I thought; I must try again someday to sit still and not say a word. Maybe when I'm dead.
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Well, at least this time I get to be a person in the story. The last time you told one of your Russian parables I was a bag of chickens.
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Anything you think is wrong with your body at the age of thirty-five you will be nostalgic for at the age of forty-five.
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What happens to me when I'm provoked is that I get tongue-tied and my mind goes blank. Then I spend all night tossing and turning trying to figure out what I should have said
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He was, in his way, as close to a Zen master as I've ever had, and all of us who fell under his influence began with his style and eventually ended up with our own.
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I can make a case that I regret nothing. After all, most of my mistakes turned out to be things I survived, or turned into funny stories, or, on occasion, even made money from.
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The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.
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SALLY����Harry, I can’t do this anymore. I am not your consolation prize. Goodbye.
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When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.
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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.
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As Harry puts it, men and women can never be friends because 'the sex part always gets in the way.
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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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It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.
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I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.
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I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not.
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…the 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.
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