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Quote by Max Eastman
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. - Max Eastman

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. – Max Eastman

Other quotes by Max Eastman

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

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Romantic
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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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Art
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Other Quotes from
Humor
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Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is. – Francis Bacon

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Humor

I mean, yeah, Im sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I dont think its all that different than the American sense of humor. – Simon Pegg

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Humor

I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than Americas and juicier than Britains. I think its a cross between the two of them, really. – Scott Thompson

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Humor

I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor – a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you cant read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesnt read that way. – Michael Buble

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Humor

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My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if thats possible. I was always humming and things like that. – Miley Cyrus

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He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition. – Charles Lamb

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