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Malcolm Muggeridge

Malcolm Muggeridge föddes den 24 mars 1903 och dog den 14 november 1990 - English writer
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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

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.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

Mind

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.

Civilization -- a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.

like trying a man's finger for having pulled the trigger of a gun which murdered someone.

One of the stupidest theories of Western life.

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

Life

He [Sir Anthony Eden] is not only a bore but he bores for England.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

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