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Max Eastman

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About Max Eastman

Max Forrester Eastman was an American writer on literature, philosophy, and society, a poet, and a prominent political activist. Moving to New York City for graduate school, Eastman became involved with radical circles in Greenwich Village. He supported socialism and became a leading patron of the Harlem Renaissance and an activist for a number of liberal and radical causes. For several years, he edited The Masses. With his sister Crystal Eastman, he co-founded in 1917 The Liberator, a radical …

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Topics: Humor Art Beauty Hope Pet Romantic
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.
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.
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.

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