Max Forrester Eastman quotes Born: 01/12/1883 Died: 03/25/1969 Country: usa

• Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. (Max Eastman) [choice/mind]
• Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together. (Max Eastman) [laughter/speech/thing/society]
• A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. (Max Eastman) [joke]
• The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. (Max Eastman) [artist/consciousness]
• 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)
• A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything. (Max Eastman)
• A smile is the universal welcome. (Max Eastman)
• Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. (Max Eastman)
• Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. (Max Eastman)
• 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)
• It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. (Max Eastman)
• People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo. (Max Eastman)
• Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest. (Max Eastman)
• The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. (Max Eastman)

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