Wyndham Lewis Short Quotes

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

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Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up.

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Laughter does not progress. It is primitive, hard and unchangeable.

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

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Laughter is the sudden handshake of mystic violence and the anarchist.

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

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

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Laughter is the bark of delight of a gregarious animal at the proximity of its kind.

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Laughter is the one obvious commotion that is not complex, or in expression dynamic.

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Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.

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

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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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Laughter is the strong elastic fish, caught in Styx, springing and flapping about until it dies.

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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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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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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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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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A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.

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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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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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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.
Of Three Lives (1909)

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The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe.

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

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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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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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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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In a period of such obsessing political controversy as the present, I believe that I am that strange animal, the individual without any politics at all.

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The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.

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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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