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Nora Ephron: 10 Scenes We Love

What better time than Valentine's Day to revisit gems from movies like ''When Harry Met Sally...,'' ''You've Got Mail,'' and ''Sleepless in Seattle''
By EW Staff Updated June 27, 2012 at 01:00 AM EDT
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Nora Ephron | When Harry Met Sally... Harry Burns: ''I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour…

When Harry Met Sally...
Harry Burns: ''I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.''

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Nora Ephron | When Harry Met Sally... Harry: Yeah, plus you know you just get to a certain point where you get tired of the whole thing. Sally:…

When Harry Met Sally...

Harry: Yeah, plus you know you just get to a certain point where you get tired of the whole thing.
Sally: What ''whole thing''?
Harry: The whole life-of-a-single-guy thing. You meet someone, you have the safe lunch, you decide you like each other enough to move on to dinner. You go dancing, you do the white-man's over-bite, go back to her place, you have sex and the minute you're finished you know what goes through your mind? How long do I have to lie here and hold her before I can get up and go home. Is thirty seconds enough?
Sally: (In disgust) That's what you're thinking? Is that true?
Harry: Sure! All men think that. How long do you want to be held afterwards?  All night, right? See there's your problem, somewhere between thirty seconds and all night is your problem.
Sally: I don't have a problem!
Harry: Yeah you do.

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Nora Ephron | When Harry Met Sally... Sally: I'd like the chef salad please with the oil and vinegar on the side and the apple pie a la…

When Harry Met Sally...

Sally: I'd like the chef salad please with the oil and vinegar on the side and the apple pie a la mode.
Waitress: Chef and apple a la mode.
Sally: But I'd like the pie heated and I don't want the ice cream on top, I want it on the side, and I'd like strawberry instead of vanilla, if you have it. If not, then no ice cream, just whipped cream, but only if it's real. If it's out of a can then nothing.
Waitress: Not even the pie?
Sally: No, just the pie, but then not heated.

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Nora Ephron | When Harry Met Sally... Harry: What are you saying, that they fake orgasm? Sally: It's possible. Harry: Get outta here! Sally: Why? Most women at…

When Harry Met Sally...

Harry: What are you saying, that they fake orgasm?
Sally: It's possible.
Harry: Get outta here!
Sally: Why? Most women at one time or another have faked it.
Harry: Well, they haven't faked it with me.
Sally: How do you know?
Harry: Because I know.
Sally: Oh, right, that's right, I forgot, you're a man.
Harry: What is that supposed to mean?
Sally: Nothing. It's just that all men are sure it never happened to them and that most women at one time or another have done it, so you do the math.
Harry: You don't think that I could tell the difference?
Sally: No.
Harry: Get outta here.
Sally: Ooo...Oh...Ooo...
Harry: Are you OK?
Sally: Oh...Oh god...Ooo Oh God...Oh...Oh...Oh...Oh God...Oh yeah right there. Oh!  Oh...Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes...Oh...Oh...Yes Yes Yes....Oh...Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes...Oh...Oh... Oh... Oh God Oh... Oh... Huh...

 

(Sally finishes, looks at Harry and smiles. Harry looks back, looking a little uneasy)

 

Lady from another table: I'll have what she's having.

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Nora Ephron | You've Got Mail Joe: Look, the reason I came into your store is that I was spending the day with Annabel and Matt. I like…

You've Got Mail

Joe: Look, the reason I came into your store is that I was spending the day with Annabel and Matt. I like to buy them a present when I see them because I'm one of those guys who likes to buy his way into the hearts of children who are his relatives. There was only one place to buy children's books in the neighborhood — although that will not always be the case, and it was yours, and it is a charming little bookstore. You probably sell $250,000 worth of book a year —
Kathleen: How do you know that?
Joe: I'm in the book business.
Kathleen: I'M in the book business —

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Nora Ephron | You've Got Mail Joe: Tweaking? Kathleen: That's what he said. Joe: He's probably married. Kathleen: That's a terrible thing to say. It's not possible. Joe:…

You've Got Mail

Joe: Tweaking?
Kathleen: That's what he said.
Joe: He's probably married.
Kathleen: That's a terrible thing to say. It's not possible.
Joe: Have you asked him if he's married? Have you said, ''Are you married?''
Kathleen: No.

(Joe looks at her, shrugs.)

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Nora Ephron | You've Got Mail Joe: I came home tonight and got into the elevator to go to my apartment. An hour later, I got out of…

You've Got Mail

Joe: I came home tonight and got into the elevator to go to my apartment. An hour later, I got out of the elevator, and Brinkley and I moved out. Suddenly, everything had become clear.

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Nora Ephron | Sleepless in Seattle Walter: So what happened? Annie: I told you. Nothing — Walter: At the top of the Empire State Building — Annie: I'm…

Sleepless in Seattle

Walter: So what happened?
Annie: I told you. Nothing —
Walter: At the top of the Empire State Building —
Annie: I'm not at the top of the Empire State Building. I'm here.
Walter: Not really. Look, Annie, I love you. Let's leave that out of it. I don't want to be someone you're settling for. I don't want to be someone anyone settles for.

I have a life insurance policy, I'm fully invested in growth stocks, I have a paid subscription to Home Box Office, I have no sexual diseases, I have been steadily employed in a part of the economy that isn't soft, I have expectation in the way of inherited wealth, I dress nicely, I am a member of the private sector, an independent voter, I don't watch Monday Night Football, the only thing wrong with me is that I am allergic to wheat, strawberries, penicillin, pollen, nuts, and wool. There are plenty of women who see me as the brass ring. If you don't — marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it?

(Annie is nodding. She wipes a tear from her face.)

Annie: Oh, Walter. I don't deserve you.
Walter: I think that's what I'm saying.

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Nora Ephron | Sleepless in Seattle Becky: Men never get this movie. Annie: I know. Becky: Do you think at the end of the movie when she's in…

Sleepless in Seattle

Becky: Men never get this movie.
Annie: I know.
Becky: Do you think at the end of the movie when she's in the wheelchair they can still do it?
Annie: I always wondered about that too.

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Nora Ephron | Julie & Julia Paul: Anyway, so there we were in China, just friends having dinner, and it turned out to be Julia. It turned out…

Julie & Julia

Paul: Anyway, so there we were in China, just friends having dinner, and it turned out to be Julia. It turned out to be Julia all along. Julia, you are the butter to my bread, and the breath to my life. I love you, darling girl. Happy Valentine's Day.

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