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Max Eastman

A smile is the universal welcome.

— Max Eastman smile

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

— Max Eastman pain

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

— Max Eastman humor

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

— Max Eastman man

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

— Max Eastman wit

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.

— Max Eastman war

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

— Max Eastman art

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

— Max Eastman art

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

— Max Eastman hope

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.

— Max Eastman mind

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.

— Max Eastman think

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

— Max Eastman life

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

— Max Eastman society

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

— Max Eastman mind

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.

— Max Eastman history

Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.

— Max Eastman lies

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