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To give up another person's love is a mild suicide; like a very bad inoculation as compared to the full disease.
— Wyndham Lewis
Don't you sometimes wish that you had been born into the Age of Reason, instead of into the Age of the Ostensible Reason?
— John Wyndham
Darling, whose book is this to be?""Ostensibly yours, my sweet"
"I see
rather like my life since I met you?"
"Yes darling — John Wyndham
Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.
— John Wyndham
My protective coloration isn't intended to deceive you, my sweet. It is intended to deceive me.
— John Wyndham
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.
— Wyndham Lewis
The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe.
— Wyndham Lewis
Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.
— Wyndham Lewis
Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it.
— John Wyndham
Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?
— Wyndham Lewis
If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either.
— John Wyndham
All the old problems, the stale ones, both personal and general, had been solved by one mighty slash.
— John Wyndham
We are not shut away into individual cages from which we can reach out only with inadequate words.
— John Wyndham
All orthodox opinion - that is, today, "revolutionary" opinion either of the pure or the impure variety - is anti-man.
— Wyndham Lewis
Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.
— Wyndham Lewis
Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away.
— Wyndham Lewis
Pretty nearly any stroke of fate can be made to look like a funny coincidence if you try hard enough and wait long enough.
— John Wyndham
The teacher does not have to be, although he has to know: he is the mind imagining, not the executant.
— Wyndham Lewis
There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes.
— John Wyndham
It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.
— John Wyndham
When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.
— John Wyndham
Spain is an overflow of sombreness ... a strong and threatening tide of history meets you at the frontier.
— Wyndham Lewis
A sort of botanical glory-hole
— John Wyndham
When almost half a lifetime has been spent in one conception of order, reorientation is no five-minute business.
— John Wyndham
The ideal of perfect Success is an ideal belonging to the same sort of individual as the inventor of Equal Rights of man and Perfectibility.
— Wyndham Lewis
every day it was tomorrow that I'd be able to do it, and each day it became more difficult.
— John Wyndham
Wyndham's is a beautiful old theatre. The sensation on the stage isn't as different as you might think from the Royal Court.
— Sophie Thompson
The clock is the most scared thing in a hospital
— John Wyndham
Laughter is the Wild Body's song of triumph.
— Wyndham Lewis
Think & Grow Finance is a Melbourne based mortgage broking business. It provides you all type of financial help at any time.
— Parveen Kumar
We've got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We'd be lost indeed if we didn't do that.
— John Wyndham
In Oppley they're smart, and in Stouch they're smarmy, but Midwich folk are just plain barmy
— John Wyndham
Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding ... Cut it at any point, it is the same thing ... all fat, without nerve.
— Wyndham Lewis
In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of 'freedom', like a bastard brother of reform.
— Wyndham Lewis
I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass.
— Wyndham Lewis
Where there is abundance you can afford waste.
— Wyndham Lewis
Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.
— Wyndham Lewis
... after all, what is a planet but an island in space?
— John Wyndham
Appreciating a private room. In a public ward the messy proceeding would have taken place a whole unnecessary hour
— John Wyndham
No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.
— Wyndham Lewis
Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.
— John Wyndham
Lenin in a top hat and frock coat would be a far greater anomaly than the Grand Lama of Thibet or a Zulu chief in that costume.
— Wyndham Lewis
You're Beau Wyndham! Well, I'll be damned!''The prospect,' said Sir Richard, bored, 'leaves me unmoved — Georgette Heyer
Art is the expression of an enormous preference.
— Wyndham Lewis
It is because nature is ruthless, hideous, and cruel beyond belief that it was necessary to invent civilisation.
— John Wyndham
But it is an inescapable conclusion that life has to be dynamic and not static. Change is bound to come one way or another.
— John Wyndham
Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten
— John Wyndham
The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.
— John Wyndham
"Your Tim is so unmistakably a healthy extravert type. Mens stulta in corpore sano, and all that.""Exactly," she agreed. — John Wyndham
An artist should be as impartial as God.
— Wyndham Lewis
When I was quite small I would sometimes dream of a city - which was strange, because it began before I even knew what a city was.
— John Wyndham
People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.
— Wyndham Lewis
Life is art's rival and vice versa.
— Wyndham Lewis
Knowing makes all the difference ... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for
— John Wyndham
Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?
— John Wyndham
It was all conveyed by the nicest, almost indetectably refined blend of sympathy and bitchiness ...
— John Wyndham
I would do terrible things for the ones I love, Miss Wyndham.
— Tarun Shanker
I was hiding from them even while I moved among them.
— John Wyndham
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.
— Wyndham Lewis
Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine.
— Wyndham Lewis
For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise.
— Wyndham Lewis
There must, I think, be a great many people who go around just longing to be baffled ...
— John Wyndham
