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Favourite Lenny Bruce Quotes


"If the word *beep* stimulates you sexually you're in a lot trouble; especially if she's my mother."
*taken from "the Meaning of Obscenity.

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

"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."

RIP Lenny Bruce...we owe you more than we can ever repay so will always keep your jokes and intelligence alive

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After he was taken of the stage and reprimanded by the police, one police officer told him "if you ever said those swear words to my family, I would do something bad to you." The next night at the club, the same policeman shows up, and Lenny says "hows the family?"

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