"If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette."

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Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People do laugh when something's shocking, but that is, to me, the absolute fakest of laughs. That's not something that sustains a television series, or a movie, or even 45 minutes of a stand-up set at Carolines.

— Mindy Kaling