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Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
- Max Eastman
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#Instinct
#Pain
#Taking
A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.
- Max Eastman
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#Anything
#Believing
#Imagine
#Mind
Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.
- Max Eastman
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#Lies
#Rest
#Style
#Weak
Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
- Max Eastman
#Laughter
#Society
#Speech
#Together
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
- Max Eastman
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#Emotion
#Mind
#Priest
#Unions
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
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#Land
#Mind
#Process
#Start
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
- Max Eastman
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#Cherish
#Consciousness
#Function
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
- Max Eastman
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#Chance
#Classic
#Romantic
#Stamp
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
#Fall
#Know
#Lie
#Rest
#Why
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
- Max Eastman
#Divine
#History
#Next
#Poet
#Room
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
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#Beauty
#Know
#Life
#Process
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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#Face
#Facts
#Hope
#Men
People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.
- Max Eastman
#Favor
#Neutrality
#People
#Situation
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
- Max Eastman
#Dogs
#Laugh
#Pet
#Tails
A smile is the universal welcome.
- Max Eastman
#Smile
#Universal
#Welcome
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
- Max Eastman
#Ability
#Humor
#Sense Of Humor
#Sense
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