"My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next."

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Nora Ephron

#Mother Quotes #Tragedy Quotes #One Day Quotes

“Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.”
“The failure to invest in our public transportation and public life, I think, is a scandal and a shame, and it should be a national embarrassment.”
“I think that especially in the U.S. there's this kind of sensationalizing of news - and making it almost like CNN and stuff are entertainment networks.”
“We canâ€™t solve problems for others. We can introduce them to the Lord.”
“It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.”

Source : "How to be radical?". The OpenDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.
“Baking is like washing--the results are equally temporary.”
“Let the Truth be known, no ship is unsinkable. The bigger the ship, the easier it is to sink her. I learned long ago that if you design how a ship'll sink, you can keep her afloat. I proposed all the watertight compartments and the double hull to slow these ships from sinking. In that way, you get everyone off. There's time for help to arrive, and the ship's less likely to break apart and kill someone while she's going down.”
“As things stand now the feudal lords are content to look on while the shogunate carries on in a highhanded manner. Neither the lords nor the shogun can be depended upon, and so our only hope lies in grass-roots heroes.”

Source : "Yoshida Shoin Zenshu" by Yoshida Shoin, vol. V, 1938.

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