“How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?”

—  Woody Allen

As quoted in Love, Sex, Death & The Meaning of Life : The Films of Woody Allen (2001) by Foster Hirsch, p. 50.

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