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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
Neon
Miami
Witty
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Humorous
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Dies
Funny

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If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.
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Freedom of speech is a two way street, man. You have the right to say whatever you want and the Boss has a right to tell the police to arrest you.
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You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth.
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If you believe there is a God, a God that made your body, and yet you think that you can do anything with that body that's dirty, then the fault lies with the manufacturer.
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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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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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There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie.
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If something about the human body disgusts you, the fault lies with the manufacturer.
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You got to pay your dues to get the joke. Besides, laughter is cheap and very portable. If there's a pogrom, or they're blaming you for the plague, nothing is easier to pack than a sense of humor.
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I want to perform an unnatural act.
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I think it's about time we gave up religion and got back to God.
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Once you sleep on feathers you can't go back to sleeping on the floor.
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You got a million drug laws now because the bosses figured there was more money in putting people in jail than taxing something anyone can grow on a window sill.
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Communism is just one big telephone company.
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The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
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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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Children ought to watch pornographic movies: it's healthier than learning about sex from Hollywood.
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My only challenge was to tell my truth, man... figure out what I had to say. These days, it's not enough to boost that roomful of strangers. The young comic spends all their time trying to sound different from the million other jokesters grabbing for the mic.
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TV is just advertising for your live gig, so I'm playing whichever show is gonna get me the biggest crowd.
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You put a guy on a desert island, he'll do it to mud, a chicken, a barrel, anything, a knothole.
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