“ 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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“ For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise. ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
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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. ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
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“ In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of "freedom," like a bastard brother of reform. ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
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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 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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“ 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. ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
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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 as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination. ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
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“ Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a "revolutionary" review, or read a "revolutionary" speech, we yawn our heads off. It is true, there is nothing else… ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
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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. ”
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“ With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping "homeliness" entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all "sentiment" is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called "the Public," the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state. ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
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“ 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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“ 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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“ As a result of the feminist revolution, ''feminine'' becomes an abusive epithet. ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
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“ 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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“ 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. ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
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“ 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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“ It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite. ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
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“ In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of "freedom," like a bastard brother of reform. ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
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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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“ Many great writers address audiences who do not exist; to address passionately and sometimes with very great wisdom people who do not exist has this advantage — that there will always be a group of people who, seeing a man shouting apparently at somebody or other, and seeing nobody else in sight, will think it is they who are being addressed. ”
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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 as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination. ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
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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 as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination. ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
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“ With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping "homeliness" entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all "sentiment" is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called "the Public," the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state. ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
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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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