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Max Eastman Quotes

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

A smile is the universal welcome.
Max Eastman

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

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
Max Eastman

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

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
Max Eastman

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

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

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

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
Max Eastman

Type:
Author
Date of Birth:
0000-00-00
Year of Death:
1969
Nationality:
American