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Max Eastman
American
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About the author
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,
American
Author
#Rest
#Lie
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
Max Eastman,
American
Author
#Consciousness
#Artist
Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.
Max Eastman,
American
Author
#Style
#Rest
#Lies
People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.
Max Eastman,
American
Author
#People
#Neutrality
Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
Max Eastman,
American
Author
#Society
#Speech
#Laughter
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,
American
Author
#Play
#Mind
#Land
#Goal
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,
American
Author
#Life
#Art
#Interest
#Beauty
#Force
#Importance
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
Max Eastman,
American
Author
#History
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
Max Eastman,
American
Author
#Instinct
#Pain
#Humor
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
Max Eastman,
American
Author
#Mind
#Choice
#Emotion
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
Max Eastman,
American
Author
#Dogs
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
Max Eastman,
American
Author
#Chance
#Art
#Romantic
A smile is the universal welcome.
Max Eastman,
American
Author
#Smile
The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.
Max Eastman,
American
Author
#Hope
#Will
#Enemy
#Men
#Facts
A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.
Max Eastman,
American
Author
#Mind
#Liberal
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
Max Eastman,
American
Author
#Ability
#Sense
#Humor