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Greene, we agreed, is a Jekyll and Hyde character, who has not succeeded in fusing the two sides of himself into any kind of harmony. There is conflict within him, and therefore he is liable to pursue conflict without.

— Malcolm Muggeridge Like It Was: The Diaries (1981)

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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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