Daily Dialogue — August 31, 2012

“I just met a wonderful new man. He’s fictional but you can’t have everything.”

— Cecilia (Mia Farrow), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), written by Woody Allen

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is Woody Allen, suggested Sean Harris. Today’s suggestion by Teddy Paternak.

Trivia: Woody Allen has said more than once that this is his favorite of the movies he’s made.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Classic Woody Allen line. Reminiscent of this one from Annie Hall: “There’s an old joke — um… two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of ’em says, “Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.” The other one says, “Yeah, I know; and such small portions.” Well, that’s essentially how I feel about life — full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it’s all over much too quickly. The… the other important joke, for me, is one that’s usually attributed to Groucho Marx; but, I think it appears originally in Freud’s “Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious,” and it goes like this — I’m paraphrasing — um, “I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member.” That’s the key joke of my adult life, in terms of my relationships with women.” 

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