“The difference between sex and death is, with death you can do it alone and nobody's going to make fun of you.”

— Woody Allen

Also found in "Quotations According to Woody Allen" http://books.google.com/books?id=kd41AQAAIAAJ&q=%22quotations+according%22#search_anchor from the New York Times, 1 December 1975.

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