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Max Eastman

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Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.


— Max Eastman


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A smile is the universal welcome.


— Max Eastman


#universal #welcome

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.


— Max Eastman


#instinct #pain #taking

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


— Max Eastman


#demand #favor #neutral #neutrality #people

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.


— Max Eastman


#brute #enemy #face #facts #hope

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


— Max Eastman


#humor #joke #make #proves #sense

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.


— Max Eastman


#anything #believing #imagine #itself #liberal

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


— Max Eastman


#history #joke #next #poet #room

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


— Max Eastman


#bears #caprice #chance #classic #modern

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


— Max Eastman


#choice #emotion #mind #poetic #priest






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In 1922 after continuing financial troubles the magazine was taken over by the Workers Party of America. In 1922 Eastman embarked on a fact-finding tour of the Soviet Union to learn about the Soviet enactment of Marxism. Marriage and family
After moving to New York City Eastman married Ida Rauh a fellow radical; they divorced in 1922.

Max Forrester Eastman (January 4 1883 – March 25 1969) was an American writer on literature philosophy and society a poet and a prominent political activist. In later life however his views turned sharply and he became an advocate of free market economics and an anti-Communist.

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