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Max Eastman quotations

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