Quotes from work
Without Feathers

Without Feathers is one of Woody Allen's best-known literary pieces. The book spent four months on the New York Times Best Seller List. The book is a collection of essays and also features two one act plays, Death and God.

“How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not "the thing with feathers." The thing with feathers has turned out to be my nephew. I must take him to a specialist in Zurich.”

Woody Allen Without Feathers

Source: Without Feathers

“Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.”

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"Selections from the Allen Notebooks".
Source: Without Feathers (1975)

“The wicked at heart probably know something.”

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Source: Without Feathers

“What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.”

Woody Allen Without Feathers

"Selections from the Allen Notebooks".
Without Feathers (1975)

“What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?”

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from the play "God".
Without Feathers (1975)

“The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.”

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"Scrolls".
Without Feathers (1975)

“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.”

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"The Early Essays".
Source: Without Feathers (1975)

“As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree"— probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.”

Woody Allen Without Feathers

"The Early Essays".
Without Feathers (1975)

“If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.”

Woody Allen Without Feathers

"Selections from the Allen Notebooks".
Without Feathers (1975)

“The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife — a depressing thought, particularly for those who have bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held. On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.”

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"The Early Essays".
Without Feathers (1975)

“Rabbi Raditz of Poland was a very short rabbi with a long beard, who was said to have inspired many pogroms with his sense of humor. One of his disciples asked, "Who did God like better, Moses or Abraham?"
"Abraham," the Zaddik said.
"But Moses led the Israelites to the Promised Land," said the disciple.
"All right, so Moses," the Zaddik answered.”

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"Hassidic Tales, with A Guide to Their Interpretation by the Noted Scholar"
Without Feathers (1975)

“What a wonderful thing, to be conscious! I wonder what the people in New Jersey do.”

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"No Kaddish for Weinstein".
Without Feathers (1975)

“It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.”

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" Death (A Play) http://books.google.com/books?id=qjRaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22It's+not+that+I'm+afraid+to+die+I+just+don't+want+to+be+there+when+it+happens%22&pg=PA99#v=onepage". <br class="br">Without Feathers (1975)

“He had been mistaken several times for Robert Redford, but on each occasion it was by a blind person.”

Woody Allen Without Feathers

"No Kaddish for Weinstein".
Without Feathers (1975)