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A lie is profanity. a lie is the worst thing in the world. art is the ability to tell the truth.
-Richard Pryor
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A Lie Is Profanity. A Lie Is

Richard Pryor
A lie is profanity. a lie is the worst thing in the world. art is the ability to tell the truth.
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I don't think that my lyrics are over-laced with profanity, because i myself don't speak using a lot of profanity in normal conversation. but i think when you're making something aggressive and you need to get a point across, if you're angry, sometimes profanity is necessary. it's better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, i find.
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When i want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, i give it to them double dirty. it may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. you can't run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. an army without profanity couldn't fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. as for the types of comments i make, sometimes i just, by god, get carried away with my own eloquence.
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I've tried to reduce profanity but i reduced so much profanity when writing the book that i'm afraid not much could come out. perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
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It is not given to man to know the whole truth. his duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and in doing so, to resort to the purest means, i.e., to non-violence. god alone knows absolute truth. therefore, i have often said, truth is god. it follows that man, a finite being, cannot know absolute truth. nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. this is god's attribute alone. relative truth is all we know. therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.
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