"This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character."

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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