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Plastic surgery is a way for people to buy themselves a few years before they have to truly confront what ageing is, which of course is not that your looks are falling apart, but that you are falling apart and some-day you will have fallen apart and ceased to exist.

— Nora Ephron

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I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis.

Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.

Heartburn (1983)

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine. I think of it as my own personal bride's disease.

Crazy Salad Plus Nine (1984)

"Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don’t take it off until you’re thirty-four."

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