Lenny Bruce Quotes

• The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• When you’re eight years old nothing is your business.

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• There are never enough I Love You’s.

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  Topics in Humor

• The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

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• The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter.

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• 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.

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  Topics in Art

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

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• 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.

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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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• In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.

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• If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.

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• I’ll die young, but it’s like kissing God.

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• I won’t say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I’m going to be if I grow up.

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• I hate small towns because once you’ve seen the cannon in the park there’s nothing else to do.

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

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  Topics in God, Religion

• Communism is like one big phone company.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Company, Communism

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

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  Topics in Religion

• Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.

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• The whole motivation for any performer is ‘Look at me, Ma.’

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  Tags in Acting and the Theatre

Lenny Bruce (20)

Birth:	13th October, 1925
Death:	3rd August, 1966
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Comedian, Critic

About

Lenny Bruce, was an American stand-up comedian, social critic and satirist. He was renowned for his open, free-style and critical form of comedy which integrated politics, religion, sex, and vulgarity. His private life was marked by substance abuse and promiscuity as well as efforts to prevent his wife from working as a stripper. His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was followed by a posthumous pardon, the first in New York State history, by then-Governor George Pataki in 2003.

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