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Children ought to watch pornographic movies: it's healthier than learning about sex from Hollywood.

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Lenny Bruce
Age: 40 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 1966
Died: August 3
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Every group, every system has a set of values and morals and when you get outside those, then the alarms ring. I was politically incorrect to 95% of the country luckily my 5% had the bread to come see me.
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I would become a priest or a rabbi or a monk or whatever the hell was necessary to perform miracles such as taking money from someone else's pocket and putting it into mine, still remaining within the confines of the law.
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Wouldn't it be nice if all the people who are lonesome could live in one big dormitory, sleep in beds next to each other, talk, laugh, and keep the lights on as long as they want to?
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What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.
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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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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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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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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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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 day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
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There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie.
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When you're eight years old, nothing is any of your business.
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I'm not a comedian. I'm Lenny Bruce.
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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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