"Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an act and he told the audience, This is my act. Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week."

-- Lenny Bruce

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“Just enough of that to be able to give the reader a sense of skepticism that all - it seemed like all that was necessary. I don't really care. But what I do care about is what was happening within the realm of automobiles at the time that [Buckminster Fuller] invented his Dymaxion car because that is really relevant.”
“Although the doctrine of innate equality of the race has been proclaimed, yet so far as woman is concerned it has been a standing falsehood.”
“One of the ways we can bear the image of God well is to see things in others they don't see themselves and call that out of them.”
“Everything that is good in the arts is done by some sort of diversion.”

Source : Interview with Kristopher Terrell, www.filmjerk.com. August 23, 2003.
“I'm getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.”
“It turns out a VAT - a value-added tax - is a very easy tax to collect and a very hard tax to evade. It's a really good idea. It was invented about 60 years ago in France, of course. Because they're so good at taxing. They had a business tax that was easy to evade, and the head of the French IRS invented this value-added tax, which is very hard to evade.”
“There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.”
“At the time I thought what I had with you and your mother was better than nothing. But if you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.”

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