"Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?"

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Wyndham Lewis

#Ideas Quotes #Dying Quotes #Why Not Quotes

“There are crimes I don't commit mainly because I don't want to find out I could.”
“But I did have two months off between Loser and the start of Prozac Nation. So, it was supposed to be Jason time, right? My time to enjoy myself away from movies.”
“When we use the term pig, for example, we are referring to the people who systematically violate the peoples' constitutional rights- whether they be monopoly capitalists or police. The term is now being adopted by radicals, hippies, and minority peoples. Even the workers, when the pigs supported strike-breakers like they did as Union Oil where 100 local police came in a cracked strikers' heads, began to call them by their true name.”

Source : The Guardian Interview, February 1970.
“Oh lord, it's hard to be humble when your perfect in every way. I can't wait to look in the mirror, cause I get better looking each day.”

Source : Song: It's Hard To Be Humble
“Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting.”
“Every person who dedicates his or her life to something that belongs to the greater good is very meaningful.”
“The determination of the value of an item must not be based on its price, but rather on the utility it yields. The price of the item is dependent only on the thing itself and is equal for everyone; the utility, however, is dependent on the particular circumstances of the person making the estimate. Thus there is no doubt that a gain of one thousand ducats is more significant to a pauper than to a rich man though both gain the same amount.”
“We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or foretell the future. But surely it is in times like these, when so much that we cherish is threatened or in jeopardy, that we are impelled all the more to strengthen our inner resources, to turn to the things that have no news value because they will be the same to-morrow that they were to-day and yesterday â€” the things that last, the things that the wisest, the most farseeing of our race and kind have been inspired to utter in forms that can inspire ourselves in turn.”

Source : Lecture on opening a new library at Sutton High School on September 24, 1938. "Books As Source Of Inner Strength", The Times, p. 19, September 26, 1938.

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