"Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine."

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Source : Wyndham Lewis (1929). “The Diabolical Principle and The Dithyrambic Spectator”, p.37, Ardent Media

Wyndham Lewis

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“All I see are ankles and wrists--and FYI, you're pulling a Mileyfrickin'-Cyrus with that belly flash. Not attractive.”
“People who earn reasonable amounts are being turned into the anti-Christ. I think 45 per cent tax is a colossal amount to take off somebody, and it is taking away the incentive to earn.”

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“I think my life did go the way it was supposed to go for me.”
“I am a lucky, lucky person.”
“Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; but is an errand-boy in heaven; nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power; how then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain think thoughts; unless God does that beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I.”
“It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads this. But he was older, in the music business - or so he said.”
“The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.”
“As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places.”

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