I should invent very little if I were a flatterer. […] I sh… - Wyndham Lewis

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I should invent very little if I were a flatterer. […] I should just encourage people to describe themselves, and use the description they seemed most to relish.

Wyndham Lewis

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About Wyndham Lewis

Percy Wyndham Lewis (18 November 1882 – 7 March 1957) was an English polemicist, novelist, essayist, critic and Vorticist painter.

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Alternative Names: Percy Wyndham Lewis • Percy William Lewis • Percy Lewis • Wyndham Percy Lewis

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Every pastime has its attendant politics.

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. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Satire to be good must be unfair and single-minded. To be backed by intense anger is good — though absolutely not necessary.

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