Lenny Bruce

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

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

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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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"Communism is like one big phone company."

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"When you're eight years old nothing is your business."

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"Miami Beach is where neon goes to die."

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"There are never enough I Love You's."

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"All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover."

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

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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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"The whole motivation for any performer is 'Look at me Ma."

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

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"(On his addiction to opiods): 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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"If you can't say "Fuck" you can't say, "Fuck the government."

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

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"There are never enough 'I love you's."

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