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.

-Max Eastman

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A Joke Is Not A Thing But

Max Eastman

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.

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Goal

The Worst Enemy Of Human Hope Is Not Brute Facts, But Men Of Brains Who Will Not Face Them.

Men

Worst Enemy

Brain