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“There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.”

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source: The Paris Review Interviews, vol. I (New York: Picador, 2006), 9.

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medium: interview

notes: Originally published in Issue 13 of The Paris Review, 1956.