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I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama

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Malcolm Muggeridge
Age: 87 †
Born: 1903
Born: March 24
Died: 1990
Died: November 14
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London
England
Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge
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I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.
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The media have, indeed, provided the Devil with perhaps the greatest opportunity accorded him since Adam and Eve were turned out of the Garden of Eden.
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What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.
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I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.
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How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me
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The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.
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