Wyndham Lewis Quotes

Wyndham Lewis (10)

Birth:	18th November, 1882
Death:	7th March, 1957
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Author, Painter, Poet

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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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Intrinsically, Home

• 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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  Topics in Age

  Tags in Divine, Belong

• 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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  Tags in Praised, Compromising

• As a result of the feminist revolution, ‘feminine’ becomes an abusive epithet.

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  Tags in Feminist, Epithet

• 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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  Tags in Temples, Sculptor

• Men were only made into “men” with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally “a man” any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

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  Tags in Collapse, Male

• 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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  Tags in Spot, Movement

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

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  Tags in Revolution, Dull

• 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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  Tags in American, Intact

• In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of “freedom,” like a bastard brother of reform.

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  Tags in Reform, Democratic