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# Tuesday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/26416/
- Published: 2012-12-04T06:20:22.000Z
- Updated: 2012-12-04T06:20:22.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

Random Joseph Epstein Quotes

"In my youth one could go into a drugstore and confidently ask for a package of Luckies and nervously whisper one's request for condoms; now things are precisely reversed." *In a Cardboard Belt!*

"The first condition of humor is its un-universality. If music be a universal language, humor is a quite particular one." *Once More Around the Block*. (If you doubt Epstein on this, recall the polar opposite reactions to *Napoleon Dynamite*.)

"Comedy, as Santayana put it, 'is life caught in the act'; to which I would add, it is especially people caught in the act, which is why pretension is always such a fine target for humor." *Once More Around the Block*.

"Subtle creative abuse is better than blatant abuse. An excellent example is Sydney Smith's remark about Macaulay, who was a famous nonstop talker: 'He has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.'" *Once More Around the Block*.

"One of the things that make pornography so damnable, in my view, is its humorlessness." *Once More Around the Block*.