Max Eastman quotes
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“Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.”
-- Max EastmanSource : "Enjoyment of Laughter".
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“A smile is the universal welcome.”
-- Max EastmanSource : Max Eastman (1921). “The Sense of Humor”
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“It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.”
-- Max EastmanSource : Max Eastman (2008). “Enjoyment of Laughter”, p.36, Transaction Publishers
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“The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.”
-- Max EastmanSource : Max Eastman (1962). “Reflections on the failure of socialism”
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“The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.”
-- Max EastmanSource : Max Eastman (1951). “Enjoyment of Poetry with Anthology”
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“Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.”
-- Max EastmanSource : Max Eastman (1921). “The Sense of Humor”
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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.”
-- Max EastmanSource : Max Eastman (1951). “Enjoyment of Poetry with Anthology”
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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.”
-- Max EastmanSource : Max Eastman (1948). “Enjoyment of living”
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“A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.”
-- Max EastmanSource : "The Masses" Magazine, September 1917.
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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.”
-- Max EastmanSource : The Enjoyment of Laughter pt. 3, ch. 4 (1935)
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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”
-- Max EastmanSource : Max Eastman (1951). “Enjoyment of Poetry with Anthology”
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“A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke”
-- Max EastmanSource : Max Eastman (1939). “Enjoyment of Poetry: With Other Essays in Aesthetics”
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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.”
-- Max EastmanSource : Max Eastman (2017). “Enjoyment of Laughter”, p.259, Routledge
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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 EastmanSource : Max Eastman (2008). “Enjoyment of Laughter”, p.99, Transaction Publishers
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