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Max Eastman
 
Date of birth: 04 January 1883
Date of death: 25 March 1969
Country Of Origin: America
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" 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. "

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" A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. "

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" A smile is the universal welcome. "

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" Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. "

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" Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. "

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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. "

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" Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. "

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" 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. "

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" It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. "

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" Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together. "

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" The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. "

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