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Malcolm Muggeridge

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People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.


— Malcolm Muggeridge


#believe #lies #people #want

He was not only a bore; he bored for England.


— Malcolm Muggeridge


#bored #england #only

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.


— Malcolm Muggeridge


#english #haunted #holds #i #jokes

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


— Malcolm Muggeridge


#conviction #gains #immensely #mind #minute

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.


— Malcolm Muggeridge


#giving #many #old #old age #pleasures

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.


— Malcolm Muggeridge


#century #religion #sex #substitute

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


— Malcolm Muggeridge


#hotel #life #like #night #our

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.


— Malcolm Muggeridge


#journalism #surely

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.


— Malcolm Muggeridge


#mind #narrows #travel

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.


— Malcolm Muggeridge


#fish #forget #never #never forget #only






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Having come into conflict with the paper's editorial policy Muggeridge turned back to novel writing starting Winter in Moscow (1934) describing conditions in the "socialist utopia" and satirising Western journalists' uncritical view of Joseph Stalin's regime. The first volume (1972) was The Green Stick. S.

He is credited with popularising Mother Teresa and in his later years became a Catholic and moral campaigner. During World War II he was a soldier and a spy. Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge (24 March 1903 – 14 November 1990) was an English journalist author media personality and satirist.

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