Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
ALAN KINGThe other day my house caught fire.
More Alan King Quotes
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I won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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My lawyer said, “Shouldn’t be a problem. What kind of coverage do you have?” I said, “Fire and theft.” The lawyer frowned. “Uh oh. Wrong kind. Should be fire OR theft.”
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Villains are a ball. People have been laughing at me for 50 years, so I love to sit in the back of the theater and listen to them hate me.
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We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
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We set no styles, no standards. We’re reflections. It’s a distorted mirror in the fun house.
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One thing I’ve never said in my whole life is, ‘Let’s have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.’
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As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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It’s more fun with someone who really likes it. I can’t imagine having a lasting friendship with anyone who is not interested in food.
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Banks have a new image. Now you have ‘a friend,’ your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn’t let him cut my nails.
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When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.
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As a parent, I’d – I’d be a better father.
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My mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
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One morning, I poured the apple juice into the specimen tube. The nurse held it up and said, ‘It’s a little cloudy.’ I took the tube from her and said, ‘Let me run it through again,’ and drank it. The nurse fainted.
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