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Letter "M" » Max Eastman Quotes
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«Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.»
«It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.»
Author: Max Eastman
(Author, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Humor,
Sense of humor
| Keywords:
joke, proves, sense of humor, take a joke
«A smile is the universal welcome.»
«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.»
Author: Max Eastman
(Author, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Jokes
| Keywords:
listener, listeners, nowhere, plausible, play a joke on, play on, sudden, The Listener, The Twist, trick, twist, twisting, twists
«Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.»
«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.»
Author: Max Eastman
(Author, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
force, importance, interest, life force, process, substitute, substituted, substituting, The Force
«Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind»
«People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo»
«A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything»
«Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.»
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