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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.

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  Country, Home, America

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

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

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  Ideas, Dying, Sound

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

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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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• 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.

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  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.

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  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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• 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 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.

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  Song, Laughter, Triumph

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Pride, Praise

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• Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire audience waves its hat or claps its hands. But this natural enthusiasm is turned abruptly into something much less buoyant when it is learnt that this liberty weighs us down immediately with tremendous responsibilities. We now have to take all God's worries on our shoulders -now that we are become men like gods. It is at this point that the Anxiety and Despondency begin, ending in utter despair.

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  God, Responsibility, Men

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

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• The ideal of perfect Success is an ideal belonging to the same sort of individual as the inventor of Equal Rights of man and Perfectibility.

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  Men, Rights, Perfect

  Wyndham Lewis (1918). “Tarr”

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• To begin with, I hold that there is never an end; everything of which our life is composed, pictures and books as much as anything else, is a means only, in the sense that the work of art exists in the body of the movement of life. It may be a strong factor of progress and direction, but we cannot say that it is the end or reason of things, for it is so much implicated with them ; and when we are speaking of art we suddenly find that we are talking of life all the time.

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  Art, Strong, Book

  Wyndham Lewis (1939). “Wyndham Lewis the Artist”, p.323, Ardent Media

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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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