Wyndham Lewis Quotes - Page 3

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

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  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.

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  Principles, Purpose, Use

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

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

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

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  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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• 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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• 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.

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  Men, Drunk, Notes

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Past, Mind, Weakness

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

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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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• 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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