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

    Choices   Mind   Unions  
    Max Eastman (1951). “Enjoyment of Poetry with Anthology”
  • Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

    Laughter   Pain   Humor  
  • There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.

    Men   Opinion   Conform  
    Max Eastman (1951). “Enjoyment of Poetry with Anthology”
  • A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

    Believe   Mind   Able  
    "The Masses" Magazine, September 1917.
  • Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

    Max Eastman (1921). “The Sense of Humor”
  • The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

    Men   Worst Enemy   Brain  
    Max Eastman (1962). “Reflections on the failure of socialism”
  • Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.

    Laughter   Play   Brain  
  • 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.

    Land   Play   Goal  
  • People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

    Max Eastman (1951). “Enjoyment of Poetry with Anthology”
  • The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.

    Real   Equality   Liberty  
  • 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 (2008). “Enjoyment of Laughter”, p.342, Transaction Publishers
  • The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

    Art   Writing   Defining  
    Max Eastman (1951). “Enjoyment of Poetry with Anthology”
  • Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

  • Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

    Dog   Laughter   Laughing  
    Max Eastman (2008). “Enjoyment of Laughter”, p.34, Transaction Publishers
  • Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. And a tail is an awkward thing to laugh with, as you can see by the way they bend themselves half double in extreme hilarity trying to get that rear-end exuberance forward into the main scene of action. What puts man on a higher stage of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.

    "Enjoyment of Laughter".
  • Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.

    Art   Lying   Style  
    Max Eastman (2017). “Enjoyment of Laughter”, p.259, Routledge
  • There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

    Max Eastman (1948). “Enjoyment of living”
  • He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages.

    Art   Believe   Men  
    Max Eastman (2008). “Enjoyment of Laughter”, p.99, Transaction Publishers
  • A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke

    Rooms   Next   Poet  
    Max Eastman (1939). “Enjoyment of Poetry: With Other Essays in Aesthetics”
  • 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.

    Lying   Fall   Thinking  
    The Enjoyment of Laughter pt. 3, ch. 4 (1935)
  • It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

    Max Eastman (2008). “Enjoyment of Laughter”, p.36, Transaction Publishers
  • If one were loyal to one's nation only because it was good and true ... one would not be loyal to any nation but to truth and goodness. The idea of patriotism would have no place either in our dictionaries or our lives.

    Ideas   Loyal   Goodness  
  • 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.

    Men   Patriotism   Vices  
  • A smile is the universal welcome.

    Max Eastman (1921). “The Sense of Humor”
  • Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

    Art   Romance   Bears  
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