"The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact."

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Source : Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

Wyndham Lewis

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“As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.”
“I wanted to be a certain kind of woman. I became that kind of woman.”
“Cram nailed his colours to the mast and threw down the Great Pretender”
“I long ago came to the conclusion that even if I could put down accurately the thing I saw and enjoyed, it would not give the observer the kind of feeling it gave me. I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at-not copy it.”
“The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.”

Source : Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898). “So Runs the World”, London : F. T. Neely
“It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.”
“We were impelled to remain loyal for a while to the memory of Penny. It was a form of the old fashioned custom of going into mourning. It is not a question of going around with a long face. It is just a question of having a pause between the old and the new. No haste to find a substitute for the one who has given you love for years. Wait, and let fate provide the answer.”
“I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace.”

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