Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Love and Death (1975)
“If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.”
— William Faulkner, book Absalom, Absalom!
Source: Absalom, Absalom!
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