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Feathers (1976) "Early Essays"
    Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
    Without Feathers (1976) "Early Essays"
    My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
    Epigraph to Eric Lax Woody Allen and his Comedy (1975)
    And my parents finally realize that I'm kidnapped and they snap into
    action immediately: They rent out my room.
    In Eric Lax Woody Allen and his Comedy (1975) ch. 1
    I don't want to achieve immortality through my work....I want to achieve
    it through not dying.
    In Eric Lax Woody Allen and his Comedy (1975) ch. 12
    It was partially my fault that we got divorced.... I tended to place my
    wife under a pedestal.
    At night-club in Chicago, Mar. 1964, recorded on Woody Allen Volume Two
    (Colpix CP 488) side 1, band 6
    I must say...a fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go
    to bed with me and she said "no."
    At night-club in Washington, Apr. 1965, recorded on Woody Allen Volume Two
    (Colpix CP 488) side 4, band 6
    1.29 Woody Allen (Allen Stewart Konigsberg) and Marshall Brickman =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    Woody Allen 1935-
    Marshall Brickman 1941-
    That [sex] was the most fun I ever had without laughing.
    Annie Hall (1977 film)
    Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.
    Annie Hall (1977 film)
    I feel that life is--is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.
    Annie Hall (1977 film)
    My brain? It's my second favourite organ.
    Sleeper (1973 film)
    I'm not the heroic type, really. I was beaten up by Quakers.
    Sleeper (1973 film)
    1.30 Margery Allingham =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    1904-1966
    Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.
    Flowers for the Judge (1936) ch. 4
    1.31 Joseph Alsop =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion.
    In Observer 30 Nov. 1952
    1.32 Robert Altman =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    1922-
    After all, what's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a
    minority.
    In Guardian 11 Apr. 1981
    1.33 Leo Amery =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    1873-1955
    I will quote certain other words. I do it with great reluctance, because I
    am speaking of those who are old friends and associates of mine, but they
    are words which, I think, are applicable to the present situation. This is
    what Cromwell said to the Long Parliament when he thought it was no longer
    fit to conduct the affairs of the nation: "You have sat too long here for
    any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with
    you. In the name of God, go."
    Hansard 7 May 1940, col. 1150. Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979)
    169:26
    Speak for England.
    Said to Arthur Greenwood in House of Commons, 2 Sept. 1939, in L. Amery
    My Political Life (1955) vol. 3, p. 324
    For twenty years he [H. H. Asquith] has held a season-ticket on the line
    of least resistance and has gone wherever the train of events has carried
    him, lucidly justifying his position at whatever point he has happened to
    find himself.
    Quarterly Review July 1914, p. 276
    1.34 Kingsley Amis =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    1922-
    The delusion that there are thousands of young people about who are
    capable of benefiting from university training, but have somehow failed to
    find their way there, is...a necessary component of the expansionist
    case....More will mean worse.
    Encounter July 1960
    The point about white Burgundies is that I hate them myself. I take
    whatever my wine supplier will let me have at a good price (which I would
    never dream of doing with any other drinkable). I enjoyed seeing those
    glasses of Chablis or Pouilly Fuiss�, so closely resembling a blend of
    cold chalk soup and alum cordial with an additive or two to bring it