Poems List

You'll find as you go through life that great depth and smouldering sexuality don't always win, I'm sorry to say.
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If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.
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Eighty percent of success is showing up.
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I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work … I want to achieve it through not dying.

Eric Lax Woody Allen and his Comedy (1975) ch. 12

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On bisexuality: It immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

in New York Times 1 December 1975

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If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

‘Selections from the Allen Notebooks’ in New Yorker 5 November 1973

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It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Death (1975)

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Is sex dirty? Only if it’s done right.

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex (1972 film)

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A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me and she said ‘no’.

Woody Allen Volume Two (Colpix CP 488) side 4, band 6

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Don’t knock masturbation. It’s sex with someone I love.

Annie Hall (1977 film, with Marshall Brickman)

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