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Max Eastman has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
• Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if…
• The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.
• It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
• Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
• The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.
• Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
• A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke

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