The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.
Malcolm MuggeridgeAbout author
- Author's profession: Journalist
- Nationality: british
- Born: March 24, 1903
- Died: November 14, 1990
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Naomi was a tough kid, so much tougher than Landsman ever needed to be. She was two years younger, close enough for everything Landsman did or said to constitute a mark that must be surpassed or a theory to disprove. She was boyish as a girl and mannish as a woman. When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, “In everything but sexual preference.
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