A quote from Anna Karenina that I dig:
"Do tell me something amusing but not spiteful."
"They say that that's a difficult task, that nothing's amusing that isn't spiteful, but I'll try. Get me a subject. It all lies in the subject. If a subject's given to me, it's easy to spin something round it. I often think that the celebrated talkers of the last century would have found it difficult to talk cleverly now. Everything clever is so stale..."
And this was written in the 19th century, go figure.
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