"Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience."
"I don't want to be classed as a humorist. It makes me feel guilty. I've never read a good tough quotable female humorist, and I never was one myself. I couldn't do it. A "smartcracker" they called me, and that makes me sick and unhappy. 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: Quoted in Paris Review, Summer 1956
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