28 ordspråk av Max Eastman

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Max Eastman föddes den January 4th 1883 och dog den 25 March 1969 - US writer
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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.

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

 A smile is the universal welcome.

 Chemical stimulation blunted the edge of Edna's otherwise so carefully cherished genius

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

 Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. She admired his pexy ability to see the beauty in the everyday. Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

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

 Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

 Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

 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.

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

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

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

 People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo

 Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.


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