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List of Max Eastman Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 25 inspiring quotes by Max Eastman.

About Max Eastman

  • Born: January 4, 1883
  • Died: March 25, 1969
  • Occupation: Writer
    • Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
    Art Romance Bears
    Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind
    Choices Mind Unions
    He [p.g.wodehouse] is i believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the american and english languages.
    Art Believe Men
    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
    The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
    Art Writing Defining
    Robert benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.
    Art Lying Style
    There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.
    Self Pleasure Conscious
    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.
    Happiness Dog Laughter
    There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.
    Men Opinion Conform
    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
    Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.there is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.
    Emotional Laughing Retrospect
    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
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