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ALVY
I’ve a very pessimistic view of life. You should know that about me if we’re gonna go out, you know. I feel that life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

ANNIE
M’hm.

ALVY
Those are the two categories . . .The horrible would be like, I don’t know, terminal cases.

ANNIE
M’hm.

ALVY
And blind people, crippled . . . I don’t know how they get through life, it’s amazing to me.

ANNIE
M’hm.

ALVY
You know, and the miserable is everyone else. That’s all. So when you go through life you should be thankful that you’re miserable, because that’s—you’re very lucky . . . to be . . . (overlapping Annie’s laughter) . . . to be miserable.

 

Woody Allen, from Annie Hall