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Max Eastman Quotes

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A smile is the universal welcome  (Max Eastman Quotes) Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.  (Max Eastman Quotes) Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails  (Max Eastman Quotes) The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness  (Max Eastman Quotes) Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together  (Max Eastman Quotes) A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything  (Max Eastman Quotes) There is something self-defeating in the too conscious pursuit of pleasure  (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 Quotes) The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them  (Max Eastman Quotes) A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke  (Max Eastman Quotes) Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind  (Max Eastman Quotes) 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 Quotes) It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor  (Max Eastman Quotes) People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo  (Max Eastman Quotes) Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance  (Max Eastman Quotes) 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  (Max Eastman Quotes) The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force  (Max Eastman Quotes) 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  (Max Eastman Quotes) Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play  (Max Eastman Quotes) 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 Quotes)