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

— Lenny Bruce Paul Krassner in Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth (1998)

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

Clean to you, schmuck, but dirty to the Latins!

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If something about the human body disgusts you, the fault lies with the manufacturer.

Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth (1998)

If I get busted in New York, the freest city in the world, that will be the end of my career.

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

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