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The function of a blog is on some level to start a conversation that you're not involved in any more because you've already had your say. That thing of coming right off the news — did you see what I saw this morning, can you believe it? — has a kind of fun appeal.

— 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)

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.

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