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Life is a four-letter word.

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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
Letter
Letters
Four
Word
Life

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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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I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write songs like, What I'm going to do if I grow up.
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Once the country was settled and built, the bosses changed the order from a stack of educated workers to a barrel of minimum wage lottery dreamers.
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I am influenced by every second of my waking hour.
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I was a Jew talking about Goyim religion. If I had just stuck to Moses, everything would have been cool. But, copping to being part of the whole Christ murder conspiracy got everyone goose-stepping again.
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Communism is just one big telephone company.
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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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Certain things are complete superstition and have no validity at all in the Bible. Yeah. They're just the antithesis of everything that is correct intellectually.
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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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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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Communism is like one big phone company.
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Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.
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Children ought to watch pornographic movies: it's healthier than learning about sex from Hollywood.
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There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.
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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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If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish
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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 put a guy on a desert island, he'll do it to mud, a chicken, a barrel, anything, a knothole.
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There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie.
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Alright, let's admit it, we Jews killed Christ - but it was only for three days.
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