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Woody Allen: top 200 quotes
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God (n.) is either cruel or incompetent.
God (n.) is an entity who, if he does exist, then he'd better have a good excuse.
God (n.) is not real, and not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on sunday.
Love (n.) is a learning process for both sexes. Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to while women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.
Love (n.) is all luck, no matter what the shrinks, or the pundits, or the self-help books tell you.
Love (n.) is certain suffering. To love is to suffer and to not love is to suffer from not loving.
Love (n.) is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.
Love (n.) is different from sex in that sex relieves tension while love causes it.
Death (n.) is not the end but should be seen as a very effective way to cut down expenses.
Death (n.) is not to be feared: It's just better if you're not around when it happens.
Death (n.) is best thought of not as an ending but as a really effective way of cutting down your expenses.
Death (n.) wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't that we're dead at the end of it.
Death (n.) is a state in which it is hard to find the light switch.
Death (n.) is ultimately all of mankind being executed for a crime it never committed.
Death (n.) is a wonderful way of cutting down on your expenses.
Death (n.) is not easy — it is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
Death (n.) is not all bad — it's one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
The Heart (n.) is a very, very resilient little muscle. It really is.
The Universe (n.) is finite... which is a very comforting thought, particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
The Universe (n.) is haphazard, morally neutral, and unimaginably violent.
The Universe (n.) is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind — a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you've just made a down payment on a house.
The Universe (n.) is an astounding to want to know when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
California (n.) is where they don't throw their garbage away- they make it into TV shows.
Basketball (n.) is just a bunch of pituitary cases stuffing a ball through a hoop.
Life (n.) consists in how we choose to distort it.
Life (n.) does not imitate art, it imitates bad television.
Life (n.) is full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly. It is a lot like the old lady who complains 'boy this food is terrible, and such small portions'.
Life (n.) is tragedy, but one with a pleasant oasis here and there... moments that are good, like winning a lottery, seeing a beautiful woman, a great dinner.
Life (n.) is unresolved, confusing, bewildering, puzzling, ambiguous.
Life (n.) is full of misery, loneliness, unhappiness and suffering, and it's over much too soon.
Life (n.) is a concentration camp. You're stuck here, and there's no way out, and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors.
Life (n.) is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Art (n.) is tasked not with succumbing to despair but with finding an antidote for the emptiness of existence.
Art (n.) is the artist's false Catholicism, the fake promise of an afterlife and just as fake as heaven and hell.