“There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
Dorothy Parker
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.
“He knew what’s what, and that’s as high
As metaphysic wit can fly…”
Samuel Butler
more infosource: Hudibras (London: Alex. Murray & Son, 1869), 27.
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category: common sense, knowledge, wit
medium: poetry
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