Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Calisthenics

There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit.  Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.

-- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), American writer, poet, and critic, Interview, The Paris Review (Summer 1956)

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