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I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes. Though I'm gonna be on for an hour.

— Richard Pryor

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There are only two pieces of pussy you're gonna get in your entire life, that's your first and your last.

On sex. Live at the Sunset Strip (1982)

I don't want to go through life as a Wonder Wheel murderer!

The Toy (1982)

Make sure the check you write to a charity doesn't pay for cruel experiments on animals. Your donation should help end suffering — not cause it.

I went through every phone book in Africa, and I didn't find one god damned Pryor!

On trying to find his roots. Live At The Sunset Strip (1982)

Have you ever noticed how quiet you get when you go in the woods? It's almost like you know that God's there.

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Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking
Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer.

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A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.

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The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel– a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Karl Barth The Harper Book of Quotations (1993)

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