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Wyndham Lewis Quote: “Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion.”

51. “Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion.”

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Wyndham Lewis Quote: “The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards – material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.”

52. “The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards – material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.”

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Wyndham Lewis Quote: “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.”

53. “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.”

— Wyndham Lewis

Wyndham Lewis Quote: “The teacher does not have to be, although he has to know: he is the mind imagining, not the executant.”

54. “The teacher does not have to be, although he has to know: he is the mind imagining, not the executant.”

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Wyndham Lewis Quote: “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.”

55. “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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Wyndham Lewis Quote: “We are against the glorification of “the People,” as we are against snobbery. It is not necessary to be an outcast bohemian, to be unkempt or poor, any more than it is necessary to be rich or handsome, to be an artist. Art is nothing to do with the coat you wear. A top-hat can well hold the Sixtine. A cheap cap could hide the image of Kephren.”

56. “We are against the glorification of “the People,” as we are against snobbery. It is not necessary to be an outcast bohemian, to be unkempt or poor, any more than it is necessary to be rich or handsome, to be an artist. Art is nothing to do with the coat you wear. A top-hat can well hold the Sixtine. A cheap cap could hide the image of Kephren.”

— Wyndham Lewis

Wyndham Lewis Quote: “A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.”

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

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Wyndham Lewis Quote: “Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias.”

58. “Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias.”

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Wyndham Lewis Quote: “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.”

59. “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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Wyndham Lewis Quote: “A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them.”

60. “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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Wyndham Lewis Quote: “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.”

61. “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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Wyndham Lewis Quote: “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.”

62. “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.”

— Wyndham Lewis

Wyndham Lewis Quote: “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.”

63. “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.”

— Wyndham Lewis

Wyndham Lewis Quote: “Death is the thing that differentiates art and life. Art is identical with the idea of permanence. It is a continuity and not an individual spasm. Life is the idea of the person.”

64. “Death is the thing that differentiates art and life. Art is identical with the idea of permanence. It is a continuity and not an individual spasm. Life is the idea of the person.”

— Wyndham Lewis

Wyndham Lewis Quote: “Love performs its natural miracle, and they become part of us; it is a dismemberment to cast them off. Our own blood flows out after them when they go.”

65. “Love performs its natural miracle, and they become part of us; it is a dismemberment to cast them off. Our own blood flows out after them when they go.”

— Wyndham Lewis

Wyndham Lewis Quote: “And to wish to be alone, or to drink alone, or to do anything else alone, is the first step to the supernatural: which, in its turn, is the first step to the stake or the crucifix.”

66. “And to wish to be alone, or to drink alone, or to do anything else alone, is the first step to the supernatural: which, in its turn, is the first step to the stake or the crucifix.”

— Wyndham Lewis

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