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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.

— Wyndham Lewis The Art of Being Ruled (1926)

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Every pastime has its attendant politics.

The Apes of God (1930)

Wherever there is objective truth there is satire.

Rude Assignment: An Intellectual Autobiography (1950)

I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic, lion, in a particularly contemptible and ill-run zoo.

Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.

Inferior Religions (1917)

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