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Max Eastman [1883-1969] American
Rank: 103
Author, Writer


Max Forrester Eastman was an American writer on literature, philosophy and society; a poet, and a prominent political activist. Moving to New York City for graduate school, Eastman became involved with liberal and radical circles in Greenwich Village. 

Humor, Art, Beauty, Chance, Pet, Romantic, Smile

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A smile is the universal welcome. Smile
101
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
102
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. Art, Beauty
103
People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.
104
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. Pet
105
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. Humor
106
A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.
107
The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.
108
Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
109
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. Humor
110
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. Chance, Romantic
111
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.
112
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
113
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
114
Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.
115
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.
116

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