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Max Eastman
Max Eastman
American Author
Born: Jan 4, 1883
Died: Mar 25, 1969
Down Humor Joke Mind Rest You
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. Max Eastman
Pet Laugh Tails Dogs
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. Max Eastman
You Sense Of Humor Humor Joke Sense Ability Take Make Proves
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. Max Eastman
Humor Pain Taking Instinct
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
Life Art Beauty Whatever Importance Know Force Makes Substitute Process Interest
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
You Mind Joke Trick He Toward Him Go Goal Off Expect Listener Just Where Process Land Then Sudden Nowhere Plausible Play Thing Twist Start
Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together. Max Eastman
Together Laughter Society Chief After Holds Thing Speech
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. Max Eastman
History Poet Joke Divine Room Next
Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest. Max Eastman
Rest Style Down Weak Lies Robert Frequently
A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything. Max Eastman
Mind Liberal Able Itself Anything Believing Imagine
The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. Max Eastman
Hope Enemy Will Men Face Worst Brute Facts Brains Human Them Who

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