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Lenny Bruce

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There are never enough 'I love you's.


— Lenny Bruce


#inspiration #humor

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.


— Lenny Bruce


#back #church #day #every #every day

If you can't say "Fuck" you can't say, "Fuck the government.


— Lenny Bruce


#fuck #government #profanity #censorship

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.


— Lenny Bruce


#around #been #catholic #catholic school #chairs

The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.


— Lenny Bruce


#past #present #nostalgia

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it...try to fake three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha -- they'll take you away, man. You can't.


— Lenny Bruce


#comedy #laughter #art

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.


— Lenny Bruce


#allow #enough #give #plus #public

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


— Lenny Bruce


#new-york-city

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.


— Lenny Bruce


#art form #away #comedy #fake #form

The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.


— Lenny Bruce


#liberals #people #them #understand #who






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Did you know about Lenny Bruce?

Increasing drug use also affected his health. At the time of his death his girlfriend was comedienne Lotus Weinstock. At forty.

He was renowned for his open free-style and critical form of comedy which integrated politics religion and sex. He paved the way for future outspoken comedians and his trial for obscenity in which – after being forced into bankruptcy – he was eventually found not guilty is seen as a landmark trial for freedom of speech in the US. His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was followed by a posthumous pardon the first in New York state history.

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