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Lewis sought no disciples, nor does he offer a program or solution, rather his contribution is a critical discipline. Lewis is a stimulant, a mode of perception, rather than a position or practice.

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Wyndham Lewis
Age: 72 †
Born: 1884
Born: November 18
Died: 1957
Died: January 1
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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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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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Life is art's rival and vice versa.
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The teacher does not have to be, although he has to know: he is the mind imagining, not the executant.
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Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.
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Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
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But ‘art’ is not anything serious or exclusive: it is the smell of oil paint, Henri Murger’s Vie de Boheme, corduroy trousers, the operatic Italian model: but the poetry, above all, of linseed oil and turpentine.
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Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.
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The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.
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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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It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.
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Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away.
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The English certainly and fiercely pride themselves in never praising themselves.
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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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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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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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A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.
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We are the first men of a Future that has not materialized. We belong to a great age that has not come off. We moved too quickly for the world. We set too sharp a pace.
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Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion.
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