Quotes
Authors
Lawrence Douglas
"I think for much of the middle classes, nothing could be more fantastic than to have a contact with fame. But once you have that contact with fame and find out how vacuous it is, that it doesn't answer anything or supply any ultimate revelation to cosmic dilemmas and you're still left with yourself, then it's back to the drawing room with fading light and one light bulb out in the very expensive chandelier that no one has bothered to replace." --
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Lawrence Douglas
#Thinking Quotes
#Fame Quotes
#Fantastic Quotes
“Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.”
“What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth”
“And I would begin with the EPA, because there is no other agency like the EPA. It should really be renamed the 'job-killing organization of America.'”
“The greatest failure in life is to stop trying.”
“I think I have an awareness inside of me that we are all the same, that basically we are all part of that one heart. When I am with people, I feel there is a part of me that knows a part of them because we are beyond our personalities, our emotions, and our thoughts.”
“Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him. I was at university at the same time as him. I think in the sixties, like all the Royals, he really had very little impact on my life at all and he seemed, if anything a lot older in his attitudes.”
“Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only by a superior air force.”
“Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a revolutionary review, or read a revolutionary speech, we yawn our heads off. It is true, there is nothing else. Everything is correctly, monotonously, dishearteningly revolutionary. What a stupid word! What a stale fuss!”
Source : Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”
