I'll die young, but it's like ki... by Lenny Bruce | We Heart Quotes

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

- Lenny Bruce

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All my humor is based upon destruction and despair.

- Lenny Bruce

I was not born in a vacuum. Every thought I have belongs to someone else.

- Lenny Bruce

Liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.

- Lenny Bruce

I am influenced by every second of my waking hour.

- Lenny Bruce

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.

- Lenny Bruce

People

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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