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• Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Laughter, Independent, Important

  "Contemporary Verse". Book by Kenneth Allott, 1948.

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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.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Country, Home, America

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?

  Wyndham Lewis

  Ideas, Dying, Sound

  1926 The Art of Being Ruled, pt.1, ch.1.

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• A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Rights, Color, Names

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

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• Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding.... Cut it at any point, it is the same thing ... all fat, without nerve.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Song, Cutting, Black

  'Time and Western Man' (1927) pt. 1, ch. 13

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• Lenin in a top hat and frock coat would be a far greater anomaly than the Grand Lama of Thibet or a Zulu chief in that costume.

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  Would Be, Anomalies, Coats

  Wyndham Lewis (1929). “The Diabolical Principle and The Dithyrambic Spectator”, p.36, Ardent Media

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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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  Teacher, Mind, Doe

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

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  Taken, Dull, Today

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

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• Laughter is the Wild Body's song of triumph.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Song, Laughter, Triumph

  Walter Michel, Wyndham Lewis (1971). “Wyndham Lewis: paintings and drawings”

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• Surely to root politics out of art is a highly necessary undertaking: for the freedom of art, like that of science, depends entirely upon its objectivity and non-practical, non-partisan passion.

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  Art, Passion, Objectivity

  Wyndham Lewis (1929). “The Diabolical Principle and The Dithyrambic Spectator”, p.40, Ardent Media

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• Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.

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  Art, Sadism, Excess

  Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”

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• Life is art's rival and vice versa.

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  Art, Vices, Rivals

  Wyndham Lewis (1918). “Tarr”

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• Then down came the lid--the day was lost, for art, at Sarajevo. World-politics stepped in, and a war was started which has not ended yet: a "war to end war." But it merely ended art. It did not end war.

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  Art, War, World

  1937 Blasting and Bombardiering, pt.5,'Toward an Art-Less Society'.

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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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  Art, Stupid, Mind

  Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”

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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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  Organization, Weakness, Should

  Wyndham Lewis (1929). “The Diabolical Principle and The Dithyrambic Spectator”, p.91, Ardent Media

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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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  Eye, Artist, Voyages

  Wyndham Lewis (1976). “Enemy Salvoes: Selected Literary Criticism”

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• Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

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  Art, Expression, Preference

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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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  Men, Self, World

  Wyndham Lewis (1918). “Tarr”

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• The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of 'decency.' The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to.

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  Science, Names, White

  1926 The Art of Being Ruled.

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• The English certainly and fiercely pride themselves in never praising
  themselves.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Pride, Praise

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• Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Laughter, Tragedy, Representatives

  "Inferior Religions" (1917), cited from "Modernism: An Anthology" edited by Lawrence Raine, Oxford: Blackwell, (p. 208-209), 2005.

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• It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Running, Long, Rude

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• Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Principles, Purpose, Use

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

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• With most people, not describable as artists, all the finer part of their vitality goes into sex. They become third-rate poets during their courtship. All their instincts of drama come out freshly with their wives. The artist is he in whom this emotionality normally absorbed by sex is so strong that it claims a newer and more exclusive field of deployment. Its first creation is the Artist himself, a new sort of person; the creative man.

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  Strong, Sex, Drama

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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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  Uplifting, Destiny, Political

  Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”

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