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On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Malcolm Muggeridge
Age: 87 †
Born: 1903
Born: March 24
Died: 1990
Died: November 14
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Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge
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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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Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone.
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The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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When St. Teresa of Avila says, 'Our life in this world is like a night in a second class hotel' I agree with her absolutely and I think it's almost insulting to God and man to suggest that trivial events should give rise to deep concern on his part.
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Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
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A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.
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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 Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.
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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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When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.
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I don't like seeing people angry.
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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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In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that had long been ringing, of taking a place at a table that had long been vacant.
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All new news is old news happening to new people
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The only people I've met in this world who never doubt are materialists and atheists.
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The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.
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I regard myself as a religious... the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind as religious, I am profoundly skeptical about any form of human authority, any form of human self-importance.
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