Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

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About Rita Rudner

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Rita Rudner (born September 17, 1953) is an American stand-up comedian and actress. Beginning her career as a Broadway actress, Rudner noticed the lack of female comedians in New York City and turned to stand-up comedy, where she has performed for over three decades. Her performance on a variety of...

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I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

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My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.

My mother buried three husbands—and two of them were only napping.

When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.

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After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes: "No hablo inglés.

—Ronnie Shakes

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All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

—Edward Gibbon

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Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

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To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior "righteous indignation"—this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

—Aldous Huxley

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A broken leg can be remembered and located: "It hurt right below my knee, it throbbed, I felt sick at my stomach." But mental pain is remembered the way dreams are remembered—in fragments, unbidden realizations, like looking into a well and seeing the dim reflection of your face in that instant before the water shatters.

—Tracy Thompson

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