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It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.
Wyndham Lewis
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Wyndham Lewis
Age: 72 †
Born: 1884
Born: November 18
Died: 1957
Died: January 1
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Nova Scotia
Percy Wyndham Lewis
Percy William Lewis
Percy Lewis
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As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.
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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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Instead of the vast organization to exploit the weakness of the Many, should we not possess one for the exploitation of the intelligence of the Few?
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The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.
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Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion.
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Spain is an overflow of sombreness . . . a strong and threatening tide of history meets you at the frontier.
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Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.
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Many great writers address audiences who do not exist to address passionately and sometimes with very great wisdom people who do not exist has this advantage - that there will always be a group of people who, seeing a man shouting apparently at somebody or other, and seeing nobody else in sight, will think it is they who are being addressed.
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Art is the expression of an enormous preference.
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I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic, lion, in a particularly contemptible and ill-run zoo.
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Life is art's rival and vice versa.
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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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Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.
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To give up another person's love is a mild suicide like a very bad inoculation as compared to the full disease.
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