• Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.

  Paul Goodman
  American writer, poet, criticus 1911-1972
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1. underlying
2. lubricity
3. surface
4. bubble

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Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface. by : Paul Goodman

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