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He was not only a bore he bored for England.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Malcolm Muggeridge
Age: 87 †
Born: 1903
Born: March 24
Died: 1990
Died: November 14
Autobiographer
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London
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Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge
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In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.
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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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The price you pay for being powerful and being rich is to be hated.
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.
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Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.
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An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.
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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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When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty, some degree of asceticism is inevitable.
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The English have this extraordianry respect for longevity. The best example of this was Queen Victoria, a most unpleasant woman who achieved a sort of public affection simply by living to be an enormous age.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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People say that the Bible is a boring book...but they don't say that about Shakespeare, because the people who teach Shakespeare are zealous for Shakespeare.
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The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.
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The three most disastrous inventions of our time have been the birth control pill, the camera and nuclear weaponry. The first offers sex in terms of sterility, the second reality in terms of fantasy, and the third security in terms of destruction.
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It's the circumstances of popular monarchy, the manner in which it's developed, and it is also the fault of the people who present her with this unquestioning adulation. In other words, it's their lack of a larger faith. Which makes them fasten onto, a purely earthly symbol.
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The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
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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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What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.
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Higher education is booming in the United States the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.
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