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“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
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“I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland.”
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“1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.”
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“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.”
― The Illustrated Woody Allen Reader
― The Illustrated Woody Allen Reader
“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
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