"The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit."

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Wyndham Lewis

#Clothes Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Arbitrary Quotes

“1914...Dr. Joseph Goldberger had proven that (pellagra) was related to diet, and later showed that it could be prevented by simply eating liver or yeast. But it wasn't until the 1940's...that the 'modern' medical world fully accepted pellagra as a vitamin B deficiency.”
“Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break the chains of slavery, the first to force Emperor Napoleon to retreat, and the only to aid SimÃ³n BolÃvar in his struggle to liberate the indigenous people and slaves of Latin America from their colonial oppressors.”
“The competitor is our friend and the customer is our enemy.”
“The idea that the bumps or depressions on a man's head indicate the presence or absence of certain moral characteristics in his mental equipment is one of the absurdities developed from studies in this field that has long since been discarded by science. The ideas of the phrenologist Gall, however ridiculous they may now seem in the light of a century's progress, were nevertheless destined to become metamorphosed into the modern principles of cerebral localization.”
“It’s all in the genes”: an explanation for the way things are that does not threaten the way things are. Why should someone feel unhappy or engage in antisocial behavior when that person is living in the freest and most prosperous nation on earth? It can’t be the system! There must be a flaw in the wiring somewhere.”
“Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't deliver the emotions to your script there's no point to your story. Story is the key.”
“They want politics and think it will save them. At best, it gives direction to their numbed desires. But there is no politics but the manipulation of power through language. Thus the latterâ€™s constant debasement.”

Source : Gilbert Sorrentino (1973). “Splendide-Hotel: Meditation on Rimbaud”, p.17, New Directions Publishing
“At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.”

Source : Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1580)

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