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alvy:The – the other important joke for me is one that's, uh, 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: Uh...
"I would never wanna 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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alvy:I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final, you know. I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me. When I was thrown out, my mother, who was an emotionally high-strung woman, locked herself in the bathroom and took an overdose of Mah-Jongg tiles. I was depressed at that time. I was in analysis.
I was suicidal as a matter of fact and would have killed myself, but I was in analysis with a strict Freudian, and, if you kill yourself, they make you pay for the sessions you miss.3.
alvy:There’s an old joke. Uh, two elderly women are at a Catskills 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.
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alvy:
I though of that old joke, y’know, the, this, this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, “Doc, uh, my brother’s crazy. He thinks he’s a chicken.” And, uh, the doctor says, “Well, why don’t you turn him in?” And the guy says, “I would, but I need the eggs.” Well, I guess that’s pretty much how I feel about relationships. Y’know, they’re totally irrational and crazy and absurd and, but, uh, I guess we keep going through it because, uh, most of us need the eggs.
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annie : It's so clean out here (in hollywood)
alvy: That's because they don't throw their garbage away,
they turn it into television shows.[quotes from annie hall]
