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

—Ronnie Shakes

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About Ronnie Shakes

Ronnie Shakes (born Ronald Michael Sakele; February 21, 1947 – May 16, 1987) was an American stand up comedian who made seven appearances on the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson from 1984 to 1987. According to his wife, Ronnie "idolized [Woody] Allen, especially his perfect lines and timing".

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I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze, and I won't know what to say.

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Relationships give us a reason to live. Revenge.

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A lot of people wonder how you can tell if you're really in love. Just ask yourself this question: 'Would I mind being financially destroyed by this person?

—Ronnie Shakes

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I always wanted to be the last guy on Earth, just to see if all those women were lying to me.

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I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to say.

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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.

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You never get over it. But you get to where it doesn’t bother you so much.

—Jeffrey Eugenides in The Virgin Suicides

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