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Max Eastman

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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.


— Max Eastman


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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


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


— Max Eastman


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


— Max Eastman


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The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.


— Max Eastman


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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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