#lenny

Did you hear something?" "No." "Did I hear something?" "...I don't know... ↗

— Matt Groening

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#humor #lenny #the-simpsons #humor

Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce—to which in fact he was once taken. Trying to imagine the same for a time-transported Nathaniel Hawthorne—who during his first visit to Europe was even shocked by the profusion of naked statues. ↗

— David Markson

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#lenny-bruce #m-forster #nathaniel-hawthorne #norms #puritanism

I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones. ↗

— Faye Dunaway

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#breaking #bruce #i #interested #lenny