The first and my favorite lines from the movie…
“There’s an old joke – um… two elderly women are at a Catskill 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.
The… the other important joke, for me, is one that’s 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 – um, “I would never want to 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.”
small portions of this huge life… it seems unevitable for a person who chooses not to belong any club at all. maybe these are the explanations of my life’s dullness?
“I'm going to buy you these books…because I think you should read them instead of that cat book. I'm obsessed with death, I think. It's a big subject with me. I have a pessimistic view of life. You should know this about me if we're going to go out. I feel that life is divided up
into the horrible and the miserable. Those are the two categories. The horrible would be like terminal cases and blind people, cripples. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So when you go through life, be thankful that you're miserable. You're very lucky to be miserable.”
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