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| Malcolm Muggeridge
Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore. He was not only a bore; he bored for England. 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. My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it. 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. The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island. 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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