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Abstinence
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A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said 'no'.
-Woody Allen
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Choice
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More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
I speak, by the way, not with any sense of futility, but with a panicky conviction of the absolute meaninglessness of existence which could easily be misinterpreted as pessimism. It is not. It is merely a healthy concern for the predicament of modern man.
-Woody Allen, "My Speech to the Graduates" [First published in the New York Times in 1979]
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Crime
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"It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies."
-Woody Allen
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Goodness
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It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
-Woody Allen
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Revolution
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In perpetrating a revolution, there are two requirements: someone or something to revolt against and someone to actually show up and do the revolting. Dress is usually casual and both parties may be flexible about time and place, but if either faction fails to attend, the whole enterprise is likely to come off badly.
-Woody Allen, A Brief Yet Helpful Guide To Civil Disobedience (Without feathers), 1972
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Sex
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Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.
-Woody Allen
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Space
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"Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things."
-Woody Allen
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Success & Failure
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"Eighty percent of success is showing up."
-Woody Allen
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Sunset
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Today I saw a red and yellow sunset and thought, how insignificant I am! Of course, I thought that yesterday too, and it rained.
-Woody Allen
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Vacations
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For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something you always have.
-Woody Allen
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Books by and about Woody Allen
