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There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.

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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
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Dirty
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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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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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Alright, let's admit it, we Jews killed Christ - but it was only for three days.
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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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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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There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie.
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I am influenced by every second of my waking hour.
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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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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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What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.
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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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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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Never trust a preacher with more than two suits.
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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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Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
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Communism is like one big phone company.
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The crooks downtown figured out that comedy is like a hammer. It can put up a barn and it can knock down a wall. So they bought it outright and marketed it as Comedy Central.
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A lot of people say to me, 'Why did you kill Christ?' I dunno, it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know.
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