163 Quotes by Lenny Bruce

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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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    What you end up with is outrageousness without the laugh – comedy as electro shock therapy.

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    You can’t just run out and start the car until some cat invents a car.

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    Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York you’re Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be goyish even if you are Jewish.

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

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    There’s a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can’t make any bread helping the poor.

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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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    If you live in New York, even if you’re Catholic, you’re Jewish.

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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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