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Malcolm Muggeridge
Age: 87 †
Born: 1903
Born: March 24
Died: 1990
Died: November 14
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London
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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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The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.
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He was not only a bore he bored for England.
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It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early.
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I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.
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God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.
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One of the stupidest theories of Western life.
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All happenings, great and small, are parables whereby God speaks. The art of life is to get the message. To see all that is offered us at the windows of the soul, and to reach out and receive what is offered, this is the art of living.
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Sex on the brain is the wrong place to have it.
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Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.
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Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
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In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
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I believe that the visit of the Queen to the United States is an admirable occasion to produce an historical, truthful, sincere, genuine analysis of how the British Monarchy evolved into its present situation.
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It is simply that America is very rich and very powerful and generally speaking everybody hates the rich and the powerful.
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism.
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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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