Friday, February 10, 2012

Quote of the Day (Dorothy Parker, on Wit vs. Wisecracks)


“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), interview with The Paris Review, Summer 1956
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