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“Sex is of the same clay as Time! -- of the same clay Since both are in their essence but One-Way Time is the one-way dimension: sex its tart And subtle biological counterpart.”

Quote by Wyndham Lewis

Book:Wyndham Lewis: collected poems and plays

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Wyndham Lewis: collected poems and plays

Wyndham Lewis: collected poems and plays is a compilation that includes the works of the British writer Wyndham Lewis, featuring his poetry and plays. The collection offers a comprehensive look into his creative output, highlighting his contributions to both genres. more

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Wyndham Lewis, a British painter, writer, and art critic, was born on November 18, 1882, in London and died on March 7, 1957. He is known for his unique artistic style and theoretical contributions, being a significant figure in British modernist art. more

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“In life nothing is taken to its ultimate conclusion, life is a half-way house, a place of obligatory compromise; and, in dealing in logical conclusions, a man steps out of life -- or so it would be quite legitimate to argue.”

Men Way Would Be Life Is House Half Steps Taken Ultimate Arguing Conclusion Compromise Logical Half Way

Author:Wyndham Lewis

“The streets of a modern city are depressing. They are so aimless and so weak in their lines and their masses, that the mind and senses jog on their way like passengers in a train with blinds down in an overcrowded carriage.”

Way Mind Lines Cities Streets Modern Mass Weak Train Senses Depressing Passengers Carriages

Book:The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work

Source: The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work

“The teacher does not have to be, although he has to know: he is the mind imagining, not the executant.”

Knows Mind Doe Teacher

Book:The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work

Source: The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work

“The ideal of perfect Success is an ideal belonging to the same sort of individual as the inventor of Equal Rights of man and Perfectibility.”

Men Individual Perfect Rights Equal Ideals Belonging Equal Rights Inventor

Book:Tarr

Source: Tarr

“To begin with, I hold that there is never an end; everything of which our life is composed, pictures and books as much as anything else, is a means only, in the sense that the work of art exists in the body of the movement of life. It may be a strong factor of progress and direction, but we cannot say that it is the end or reason of things, for it is so much implicated with them ; and when we are speaking of art we suddenly find that we are talking of life all the time.”

May Mean Art Book Ends Reason Body Life Is Strong Talking Our Lives Progress Movement Factors Works Of Art

Book:Wyndham Lewis the Artist

Source: Wyndham Lewis the Artist

“In a period of such obsessing political controversy as the present, I believe that I am that strange animal, the individual without any politics at all.”

Believe Political Individual I Believe Animal Strange Periods Controversy Obsessing

Book:The Enemy: A Review of Art and Literature

Source: The Enemy: A Review of Art and Literature

“The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe.”

Ends Bigs Earth Air Safe Village Telephones Transport

Author:Wyndham Lewis

“Lenin in a top hat and frock coat would be a far greater anomaly than the Grand Lama of Thibet or a Zulu chief in that costume.”

Would Be Greater Chiefs Hats Coats Costumes Lama Anomalies Top Hats

Book:The Diabolical Principle and The Dithyrambic Spectator

Source: The Diabolical Principle and The Dithyrambic Spectator

“Where there is abundance you can afford waste.”

Waste Abundance

Book:Tarr

Source: Tarr

“Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.”

Self Seeing Laughter Tragedy Hearing Climax

Author:Wyndham Lewis