"A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere."

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Source : Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”

Wyndham Lewis

#Revenge Quotes #War Quotes #Intelligent Quotes

“When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the right track.”
“The primary function of the creative use of language - in our age - is to try to constantly restore words to their meanings, to keep the living tissue of responsibility alive.”
“We usually get what we anticipate.”

Source : Claude M. Bristol (2013). “The Magic of Believing”, p.87, Courier Corporation
“Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow older, even as we try to make them come out in some other way.”

Source : Roger Angell (2007). “Let Me Finish”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.”
“I wouldn't dream of following a fashion... how could one be a different person every three months?”
“I'm an anti-industrial kind of guy.”
“...in some ways I relied on that- someone to keep me thinking, keep me striving to do better, keep me from burying my head and praying it all worked out.”

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