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• There is nothing contemptible about an intoxicated man - if it is nothing more than a bookful of words or a roomful of notes that he has got drunk on.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Men, Drunk, Notes

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

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• All orthodox opinion - that is, today, "revolutionary" opinion either of the pure or the impure variety - is anti-man.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Men, Today, Opinion

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

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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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  Men, Relaxation, Laziness

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

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• The 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.

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  Ideas, Clothes, Arbitrary

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

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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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  Peace, Perfect, Would Be

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• Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a respecter of the rights of little nations (like little Belgium), as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination.

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  Determination, Men, Rights

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

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• Where there is abundance you can afford waste.

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  Waste, Abundance

  Wyndham Lewis (2010). “Tarr”, p.283, OUP Oxford

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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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  Roots, America, Salt

  "The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work".

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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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  Practice, Discipline, Perception

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• What every artist should try to prevent is the car, in which is our civilized life, plunging over the side of the precipice -- the exhibitionist extremist promoter driving the whole bag of tricks into a nihilistic nothingness or zero.

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  Zero, Artist, Car

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

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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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  Strong, Spain, Tides

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• People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.

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  People, Judgement, Overwhelmed

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• But let me have silence always, in the centre of the shouting—that is essential! Let me have silence so that no pin may drop and not be heard, and not a whisper escape us for all our spouting, nor the needle's scratching upon this gramophone of a circular cosmic spot. Hear me! Mark me! Learn me! Throw the mind's ear open—shut up the mind's eye—all will be music!

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  Eye, Silence, Mind

  Wyndham Lewis (1979). “Wyndham Lewis, Collected Poems and Plays”, New York : Persea Books

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• Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places from respectable existence.

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  Artist, Men, Vitality

  Wyndham Lewis (1914). “Blast”, Kraus Reprint Corp.

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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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  Love, Suicide, Giving Up

  Wyndham Lewis (1918). “Tarr”

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• If an art has for its function to represent manners and people, I do not see how it can avoid systematizing its sensibility to the extent of showing some figures much as Molière, for instance, did, as absurd or detestable.

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  Art, People, Manners

  Wyndham Lewis (1929). “The Diabolical Principle and The Dithyrambic Spectator”, p.38, Ardent Media

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• For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise.

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  Queens, Adequate, Firsts

  Wyndham Lewis (1918). “Tarr”

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• The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness; then people begin, antlike, the building of a new human world. They soon forget the last disturbance. But from these shocks they derive a slightly augmented vocabulary, a new blind spot in their vision, a few new blepharospasms or tics, and perhaps a revised method of computing time.

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  Vocabulary, Blind Spots, People

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

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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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  Men, Age, Pace

  Wyndham Lewis (1967). “Blasting & Bombardiering”, p.256, Univ of California Press

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• Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias.

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  Utopia, Construction, Chiefs

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

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• Satire has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be and singleness of aim: it is all aim, all trajectory.

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  Successful, Target, Satire

  Wyndham Lewis (1979). “Wyndham Lewis: collected poems and plays”

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• Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.

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  Elephants, Car, Bigs

  Wyndham Lewis (1914). “Blast”, Kraus Reprint Corp.

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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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  Running, Revenge, War

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• What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?

  Wyndham Lewis

  Islands, Ifs

  Wyndham Lewis (1963). “Letters”

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• To be a satirist, at all events. The venom of Pope is what is needed. The sense of delight -- the expansion and the compassion of Shakespeare is no good at all for that. He is a bad comic.

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  Compassion, Expansion, Events

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