I Remember Nothing (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Hal
• Phoebe Ephron
• Henry Ephron
• Lillian Ross
• Hallie Ephron
• Delia Ephron
• Ruthie
• Louise
• Lillian Hellman
• Priscilla
• Dashiell Hammett
• Julia
• Walter
• Jane Green
• Irwin
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Ellen
• Cary Grant
• Philip Graham
• Graydon Carter
• Lorne Michaels
• Maggie
• Thomas Friedman
• St. Clair McKelway
• Amy
• Aunt Eleanor
• Spyros Skouras
• Jacob
• Norman Mailer
• Tedda Plotkin
• Leonard Lyons
• Victor Navasky

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• “If you knew Norman Mailer and me and were asked to guess which of us cared more about sex, you would, of course, pick Norman Mailer. How wrong you would be.”

• “You take so many pills in the morning you don't have room for breakfast.”

• “The Senior Moment has become the Google moment...”

• “One good thing I’d like to say about divorce is that it sometimes makes it possible for you to be a much better wife to your next husband because you have a place for your anger; it’s not directed at the person you’re currently with.”

• “If you were a college graduate (like me) who had worked on your college newspaper (like me) and you were a girl (like me), they hired you as a mail girl. If you were a boy (unlike me) with exactly the same qualifications, they hired you as a reporter and sent you to a bureau somewhere in America. This was unjust but it was 1962, so it was the way things were.”

• “The main thing you learn from a failure is that it’s entirely possible you will have another failure.”

• “We were taught that organized religion was the root of all evil and that Adlai Stevenson was God.”

• “My religion is Get Over It.”

• “I was not at Woodstock, but I might as well have been because I wouldn't remember it anyways.”

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• The Senior Moment has become the Google moment, and it has a much nicer, hipper, younger, more contemporary sound, doesn’t it?

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• You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be. But they’re never going to. And even though you know they’re never going to, you still hope they will.

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• On some level, my life has been wasted on me. After all, if I can’t remember it, who can?

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• Now I know that there’s no such thing as the truth. That people are constantly misquoted. That news organizations are full of conspiracy (and that, in any case, ineptness is a kind of conspiracy). That emotional detachment and cynicism get you only so far.

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• The people they used to be have enormous power over you—it will be forty years before you buy a red coat (and even then, you will wear it only once)—but the people they’ve turned into have no power over you at all.

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• People always say that once it goes away, you forget the pain. It’s a cliché of childbirth: you forget the pain. I don’t happen to agree. I remember the pain. What you really forget is love.

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• You used to be my age, and now you’re much, much, much older than I am. You could be my mother. Unless, of course, I look as old as you and I don’t know it. Which is not possible. Or is it?

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• senescence. I always knew that whatever I’d forgotten was going to come back to me sooner or later. Once I went to a store to buy a book about Alzheimer’s disease and forgot the name of it. I thought it was funny. And it was, at the time.

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• New York
• Washington
• Washington, D.C.
• Aruba
• America
• Manhattan
• United States
• Los Angeles

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Glossary edit see section history

• senescence: State of being old; the process of becoming old.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Nora Ephron (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PS3555.P5 I25 2010
• Dewey: 814

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › Humor