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Wyndham Lewis Inspirational Quotes (73)

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Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.
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All orthodox opinion - that is, today, revolutionary opinion either of the pure or the impure variety - is anti-man.
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If you do not regard feminism with an uplifting sense of the gloriousness of woman's industrial destiny, or in the way, in short, that it is prescribed, by the rules of the political publicist, that you should, that will be interpreted by your opponents as an attack on woman.
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I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass.
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Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.
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Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion.
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I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum.
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A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphereThe ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.
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What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?
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The English certainly and fiercely pride themselves in never praising themselves.
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Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a revolutionary review, or read a revolutionary speech, we yawn our heads off. It is true, there is nothing else. Everything is correctly, monotonously, dishearteningly revolutionary. What a stupid word! What a stale fuss!
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If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.
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When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon.
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No American worth his salt should go looking around for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.
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Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth... What a stupid word! What a stale fuss!
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Life is art's rival and vice versa.
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A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.
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The Future is distant, like the Past, and therefore sentimental. The mere element Past must be retained to sponge up and absorb our melancholy. Everything absent, remote, requiring projection in the veiled weakness of the mind, is sentimental.
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The streets of a modern city are depressing. They are so aimless and so weak in their lines and their masses, that the mind and senses jog on their way like passengers in a train with blinds down in an overcrowded carriage.
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In a period of such obsessing political controversy as the present, I believe that I am that strange animal, the individual without any politics at all.
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A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them.
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Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.
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The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe.
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Where there is abundance you can afford waste.
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