Hallie Ephron famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The truth is rarely as dreadful or as terrifying as what one imagines.
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Write what you care about, what interests and intrigues you.
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Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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For me, a good YA novel is the best kind of comfort food.
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The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready for our first adult novel, Lucy Maud Montgomerys The Blue Castle.
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A man notices a womans figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.
-- Hallie Ephron
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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
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What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.
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If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!
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Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?
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The universe is real, but you can't see it. You have to imagine it.
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Try to imagine where we'd be without you, darlin', and then maybe you'll see just how lucky we got.
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She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was immaculate anonymity.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.
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Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.
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