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Woody Allen
American screenplay writer, actor and director; b. 1935
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# · Not So Good (29 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Sex without love is an empty gesture. But as empty gestures go, it is one of the best.
Woody Allen, Love and Death, in Love and Hate
# · Not So Good (23 ratings) · submitted 1999
Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
Woody Allen, in Life and Death and Love and Hate
# · Not So Good (26 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality by living forever.
# · Not So Good (11 ratings) · submitted 1997
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought — particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
# · Not So Good (11 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
# · Not So Good (8 ratings) · submitted 1997
Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex brings up some pretty good questions.
# · Not So Good (10 ratings) · submitted 1997
Marriage is the death of hope.
# · Not So Good (26 ratings) · submitted 1997
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
# · Good (11 ratings) · submitted 1997
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
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