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Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.


Percy Wynham Lewis

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PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS We are the books we read and the things we love.
CATH CROWLEY You should give up sarcasm. People could get the wrong idea about you.
MICHAEL PRYOR I know exactly who I am, what I'm about and who I will become.
EMMA PAUL It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entru...
SUDHIR KAKAR If you argue with a fool, you become a fool.
L.A. HILDEN Everyday is another chance to do something great.
EMMA PAUL You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm!
COLETTE there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely ...
OSCAR WILDE I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they...
PHILIP HENSHER Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.
MEG CABOT I have this feeling, like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what.
JENNIFER NIVEN 2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't.
JASPER FFORDE Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it."

The logic in th...
SARAH MACLEAN Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE!
TANYA MASSE Maxim 1:
Pillage, then burn.

-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Merc...
HOWARD TAYLER Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there ...
CASSANDRA CLARE A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life:

1. Never put off to tomorrow wha...
THOMAS JEFFERSON You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults,...
SUDHIR KAKAR The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experi...
LIBBA BRAY If you do not regard feminism with an uplifting sense of the gloriousness of woman's industrial dest...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS All orthodox opinion -- that is, today, revolutionary opinion either of the pure or the impure varie...
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PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! ...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a ...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish ...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old,...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world,...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantag...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no pr...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect....
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of freedom, like a basta...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS When we say science we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organize...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on e...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a ...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors w...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS One of a parent’s most important tasks is teaching their children how to communicate effectively a...
BY FAMOUS Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.
BY ALEFLETCHER It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by har...
SLOAN WILSON China will be held to account if it attempts to dump excess capacity on overseas markets.
HUW MCKAY Maxim 2:
A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.
HOWARD TAYLER Honor from death,” I snap, “is a myth. Invented by the war torn to make sense of the horrific. I...
RAE CARSON Webster lapsed into silence. Started thinking hard. He was a smart enough bureaucrat to know if you ...
LEE CHILD Humor and joy contribute to my total well-being.
LOUISE L. HAY Life IS the gift you were given,
So stop waiting around for your dues.
Use it wisely and y...
MICHELLE GEANEY To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.
STIRLING MOSS Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to expre...
WALTER PATER Art is not just a display of beauty. Art also reflects what is ugly, and it celebrates the grotesque...
KILROY J. OLDSTER The nature and degree of violence described by the victim and corroborated by the extent of her inju...
DETECTIVE BRYAN JAMISON I do not think I have ever seen a nastier-looking man... Under the black hat, when I had first seen ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Percy had to roll to avoid getting crushed by his large hairy rear.
RICK RIORDAN Never underestimate the power of giving a book!
CARMELA DUTRA I'm fine!" Percy yelled out as he ran by, followed by a giant screaming bloody murder.
RICK RIORDAN I was affected by the harshness of government, the reality of 16-hour days, and the pressures of mod...
DAVID BLUNKETT Actions speak in volume while words are but a mere whisper in a violent wind
TAURUS MORGAN In a world of words, anything is possible...
LAURA WRIGHT LAROCHE Maxim 29:
The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.

-The Seventy...
HOWARD TAYLER Maxim 16:
Your name is in the mouth of others: be sure it has teeth.

-The Seventy M...
HOWARD TAYLER First rule of thievery,' Eli said, grinning, 'only run if you're not coming back.' (...) 'First rule...
RACHEL AARON Things it helps me to remember
When in a bad mood, keep quiet or still.
Baggy jumpers don�...
AIDAN CHAMBERS ...I applied her rule to my life; after all, we are all searching for them, the rules. We pick them ...
RACHEL JOYCE Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their mind...
PLATO The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us i...
ROBERT HUGHES An educated person's ideas of Art are drwan naturally from what Art has been, whereas the new work o...
OSCAR WILDE I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been atte...
KIT WILLIAMS Lewis wanted us to understand that the inner world is shaped by stories.
ALISTER E. MCGRATH Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much li...
CASSANDRA CLARE A driver reaches a destination by driving on that road, not by laying back to enjoy the view.
NABIL N. JAMAL [Of the roughly $400 million in research sponsored annually at UT by the federal government and othe...
JUAN SANCHEZ By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound...
ANGELUS SILESIUS Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art
ROBIN TYLER There's another problem," Percy said. "I'm not good with air travel. It's dangerous for a son of Nep...
RICK RIORDAN I will reach out to John Kerry unless he reaches out to me first.
STEVE GROSSMAN Puritanical attempts to cure society by taking toys away from children are hypocritical and futile.
BRIAN SUTTON-SMITH Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. -Robert Greenleaf.
ROBERT GREENLEAF People gave us a purpose. Something to do all day, every day. At the end, I suppose, you spend a lot...
C. ROBERT CARGILL The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can ne...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.
WILL DURANT Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle
WILL DURANT Art should not be bound by barriers or language. The Hindi film industry is a testament to that. We ...
PRIYANKA CHOPRA Love is holy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
E. LOCKHART Maxim 18:
If the officers are leading from in front, watch out for an attack from the rear. HOWARD TAYLER It is not enough to conquer, one must [also] learn to seduce.
VOLTAIRE Regard mistakes as teachers, not judges!
TAE YUN KIM Maxim 28:
If the price of collateral damage is high enough, you might be able to get paid for ...
HOWARD TAYLER Maxim 20:
If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win.
HOWARD TAYLER Last words of wisdom. Whoever you were as a child, she's your future.
CHERISE WOLAS I would rather be damned by my honesty, than caged by my lies.
OMEGA MAVERICK Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the ...
ÉMILE ZOLA Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.
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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY There was no corn -- in the wide market-place all loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold; The...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have h...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY There is no real wealth but the labor of man.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than un...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others th...
ETHEL PERCY ANDRUS There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth how...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mis...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light s...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something af...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY And many an ante-natal tomb When butterflies dream of the life to come.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, The signet of its all-enslaving power Upon a shining...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY . . . then black despair The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I ...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY We look before and after, And pine for what is not, Our sincerest laughter With some pai...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Around, around in ceaseless circles wheeling With clangs of wings and scream, the Eagle sailed ...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY There is a harmony
In autumn, and a lustre in its sky,
Which through the summer is not heard...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY