and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.

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"Never marry a man you wouldn’t want to be divorced from."

- Nora Ephron

Love

"It seemed to me that the desire to get married — which, I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women — is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge, which is to be single again."

- Nora Ephron

Self-awareness

"The weekend is here! Time to swap to-do lists for bucket lists and coffee cups for cocktails. Let the fun begin!"

- Nora Ephron

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"Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be."

- Nora Ephron

Relationships

"Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up."

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- Maya Angelou

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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

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"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

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"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

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