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Woody Allen on Immortality

Woody Allen

Woody Allen

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I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work.  I want to achieve it through not dying.

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On Being Funny: Woody Allen and Comedy, page 235, Eric Lax, New York: Charterhouse, 1975

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