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If I get to Heaven, which I very much doubt, I will ask of God just one thing, and that is to send Shakespeare back down to earth, and make him sit a University of Madras examination in Shakespeare, just for the pleasure of watching him failing the exam.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

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To paraphrase: Everything happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.

Chronicles of Wasted Time: The Green Stick (1972)

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

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge (1966)

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