Max Eastman famous quotes
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It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
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The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.
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The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
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Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
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Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
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People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.
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Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.
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Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.
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There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.
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A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.
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A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
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I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.
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Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind
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A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke
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Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
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Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.
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The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.
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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
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Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.
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He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages.
-- Max Eastman
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