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There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie.

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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
Dirty
Lying

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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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Life is a four-letter word.
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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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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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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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You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth.
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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 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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