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Wyndham Lewis has 48 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable…
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When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we…
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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,…
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As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.
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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…
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Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire…
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Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.
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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…
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Art is the expression of an enormous preference.
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But let me have silence always, in the centre of the shouting—that is essential! Let me have silence so that no pin…
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What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?
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Popular Familiarity quotes from across the collection:
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
— Honore de Balzac
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In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.
— William Bernbach
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Familiarity breeds contempt.
— Aesop
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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely…
— Lord Chesterfield
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The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful, but it is always irrelevant. For to appreciate…
— Clive Bell
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Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.
— William Hazlitt
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Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.
— Antoine Rivarol
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From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency…
— Mark Helprin
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No matter what activity or practice we are pursuing, there isn't anything that isn't made easier through constant familiarity and training (I…
— Dalai Lama
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On her daughter Deva: I didn't have familiarity with children. I'm learning day after day, with her. And what impress me the…
— Monica Bellucci
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The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and…
— William Shakespeare
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