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Thursday, 24 July 2008

Daily Quote: "Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown." (Beecher, Henry Ward - Success)

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All that glitters is not gold.

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The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

-- Eastman, Max | Arts and Artists

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Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.

-- Eastman, Max | Emotions

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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.

-- Eastman, Max | Fun

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

-- Eastman, Max | Laughter

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A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.

-- Eastman, Max | Poetry and Poets

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