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Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.

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Lenny Bruce
Age: 40 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 1966
Died: August 3
Actor
Comedian
Journalist
Screenwriter
Singer
Writer
Mineola
New York
Witty
Beach
Humorous
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Dies
Funny
Neon
Miami

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I'm sure that half the buzz from smoking grass was the fact that it was so illegal.
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Let me tell you the truth: The truth is what is. And what should be is a fantasy a terrible, terrible lie that someone gave the people long ago.
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Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.
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Faith is to the human what sand is to the ostrich.
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There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.
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Darwin's theory is as dead as he is. Everyone is surviving, fit or not. Years ago, any kid dumb enough to chase a shiny object down a well was dead, and out of the gene pool. Now they got the technology and medicine to save the fool so he can breed more open mouth breathers.
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That's where the conflict starts. We all want for a wife a combination Sunday school teacher and a $500-a-night hooker.
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Trying to figure things out was my gig. Without the human condition, there's no struggle, no pain and that means no laughter.
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Every group needs a comedian. A comic who is politically incorrect at the Berkeley campus might slay them at a Klan rally.
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You can't do anything with anybody's body to make it dirty to me. Six people, eight people, one person - you can do only one thing to make it dirty: kill it. Hiroshima was dirty.
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Alright, let's admit it, we Jews killed Christ - but it was only for three days.
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Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
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All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
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If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.
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Once you sleep on feathers you can't go back to sleeping on the floor.
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I was surprised when Nixon passed the test and showed up in heaven, but, I guess Hitler threw off the curve for our century.
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Communism is just one big telephone company.
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Communism is like one big phone company.
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I want to perform an unnatural act.
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Children ought to watch pornographic movies: it's healthier than learning about sex from Hollywood.
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