"The male has been persuaded to assume a……" — Wyndham Lewis
"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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45 Quotes by Wyndham Lewis
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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…
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When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect:…
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Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a…
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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…
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Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this…
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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…
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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…
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What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?
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