"There is nothing contemptible about an intoxicated man……" — Wyndham Lewis
"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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45 Quotes by Wyndham Lewis
Wyndham Lewis has 45 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.
- No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a…
- When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect:…
- Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a…
- As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.
- If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and…
- Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this…
- Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.
- Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a revolutionary…
- Art is the expression of an enormous preference.
- But let me have silence always, in the centre of the shouting—that is essential! Let me have silence so that…
- What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?
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