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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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• 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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• 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.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Vocabulary, Blind Spots, People

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

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• Sex is of the same clay as Time! -- of the same clay Since both are in their essence but One-Way Time is the one-way dimension: sex its tart And subtle biological counterpart.

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  Sex, Essence, Clay

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

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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.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Roots, America, Salt

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

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