Plastic surgery is a way for people to buy themselves a few… - Nora Ephron

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Plastic surgery is a way for people to buy themselves a few years before they have to truly confront what ageing is, which of course is not that your looks are falling apart, but that you are falling apart and some-day you will have fallen apart and ceased to exist.

Nora Ephron

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Nora Ephron (May 19, 1941 – June 26, 2012) was an American journalist, writer, and filmmaker.

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Alternative Names: Norah Louise Ephron

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