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“[about his daughter] I'd rather she grew up here than grew up as an orphan, you know I can tolerate anybody's orphans but my own.”

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Woody Allen Don't Drink the Water

Don't Drink the Water (1994)

“To a man standing on the shore, time passes quicker than to a man on a boat — especially if the man on the boat is with his wife.”

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Woody Allen buch Mere Anarchy

Mere Anarchy (2007)

“I was supremely confident my flair for atmosphere and characterization would sparkle alongside the numbing mulch ground out by studio hacks. Certainly the space atop my mantel might be better festooned by a gold statuette than by the plastic dipping bird that now bobbed there ad infinitum.”

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Woody Allen buch Mere Anarchy

Mere Anarchy (2007)

“My relationship with death remains the same - I'm strongly against it,
All I can do is wait for it”

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Ibid. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8684809.stm

“…years of insanity have made this guy crazy!”

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Woody Allen Don't Drink the Water

Don't Drink the Water (1994)

“And how does gravity work? And if it were to cease suddenly, would certain restaurants still require a jacket?”

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Woody Allen buch Mere Anarchy

Mere Anarchy (2007)

“To me there's no real difference between a fortune teller or a fortune cookie and any of the organized religions. They're all equally valid or invalid, really. And equally helpful.”

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New York Times interview (2010) http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/movies/15woody.html?_r=1&ref=arts#.

“They called me mad… But it was I - yes I - who discovered the link between excessive masturbation and entry into politics!”

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972)

“Hey listen — I've proved a lot of things. That's how I pay my rent. Theories and little observations. A puckish remark now and then. Occasional maxims. It beats picking olives, but let's not get carried away.”

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Woody Allen buch Side Effects

Side Effects (1980), My Apology

“Of all the famous men who ever lived, the one I would most like to have been was Socrates. Not just because he was a great thinker, because I have been known to have some reasonably profound insights myself, although mine invariably revolve around a Swedish airline stewardess and some handcuffs.”

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Woody Allen buch Side Effects

Side Effects (1980), My Apology

“The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife — a depressing thought, particularly for those who have bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held. On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.”

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Woody Allen Ohne Leit kein Freud

"The Early Essays".
Without Feathers (1975)

“Agathon: But all that talk about death being the same as sleep.
Socrates: Yes, the difference is that when you're dead and somebody yells, "Everybody up, it's morning," it's very hard to find your slippers.”

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Woody Allen buch Side Effects

Side Effects (1980), My Apology

“With that, he scribbled in an additional ninety thousand dollars on the estimate, which had waxed to the girth of the Talmud while rivaling it in possible interpretations.”

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Woody Allen buch Mere Anarchy

Mere Anarchy (2007)

“I have also reviewed my own financial obligations, which have puffed up recently like a hammered thumb.”

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Woody Allen buch Mere Anarchy

Mere Anarchy (2007)

“Bidnick gorges himself on Viagra, but the dosage makes him hallucinate and causes him to imagine he is Pliny the Elder.”

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Woody Allen buch Mere Anarchy

Mere Anarchy (2007)

“Rabbi Raditz of Poland was a very short rabbi with a long beard, who was said to have inspired many pogroms with his sense of humor. One of his disciples asked, "Who did God like better, Moses or Abraham?"
"Abraham," the Zaddik said.
"But Moses led the Israelites to the Promised Land," said the disciple.
"All right, so Moses," the Zaddik answered.”

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Woody Allen Ohne Leit kein Freud

"Hassidic Tales, with A Guide to Their Interpretation by the Noted Scholar"
Without Feathers (1975)

“In addition to our summer and winter estate, he owned a valuable piece of land. True, it was a small piece, but he carried it with him wherever he went.”

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Love and Death (1975)

“I don't believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.”

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Woody Allen buch Getting Even

"Conversations with Helmholtz"
Getting Even (1971)

“We have to take our possessions and flee. I'm very good at that. I was the men's freestyle fleeing champion two years in a row.”

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Love and Death (1975)