Nora Ephron

[calimac]

Reports are coming across the series of tubes that Nora Ephron has died.

She was a good writer. She could make me enjoy reading about things I had no interest in, like her neck, or that I violently disagreed with. Virtually nothing that Harry says in When Harry Met Sally about The Way Men Are is true of me. But I enjoyed the movie anyway.

Nora Ephron also wrote the greatest concluding paragraph to an essay ever. I'd use this as my sig file, if I had the nerve, or if I had a sig file:

I have thought about their remarks, tried to put myself in their place, considered their point of view. I think they are full of shit.

ETA: Nora Ephron, stand-up comedian, in praise of Meryl Streep

Comments

[irontongue.livejournal.com]

I would have absolutely no qualms about using that quotation (with attribution) as a .sig.

[cynthia1960.livejournal.com]

*splorfle* Great line.

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

I;m going to borrow that quote several places so can never lose it:)