"What is the good of being an island,……" — Wyndham Lewis

What is the good of being an island, if you are not… - Wyndham Lewis

"What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?"

— Wyndham Lewis

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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…
The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives,…

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