(1893–1967)
U.S. poet, short story writer, and social satirist“There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
more infosource: The Paris Review Interviews, vol. I (New York: Picador, 2006), 9.
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category: calisthenics, distance, truth, wisecrack, wit
medium: interview
notes: Originally published in Issue 13 of The Paris Review, 1956.
“As for me, I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.”
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