Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
From Malcolm Muggeridge
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
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 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.
Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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.
He was not only a bore; he bored for England.
Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
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