Max Eastman was an American writer on literature, philosophy and society; a poet, and a prominent political activist.
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Freud makes much of the distinction between jokes which just barely make sense, and those whose main value lies in the sense they make. He cal... Go to Quote / Comment
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. Go to Quote / Comment
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. Go to Quote / Comment
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. Go to Quote / Comment
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. Go to Quote / Comment