The 'what should be' never did e... by Lenny Bruce | We Heart Quotes

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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.

- Lenny Bruce

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

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All my humor is based upon destruction and despair.

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

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