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“The greatest hindrance to growth in faith is comfortable living.”
John Carey
tags: faith

Spike Milligan
“The die was cast. It was a proud day for the Milligan family as I was taken from the house. “I’m too young to go,” I screamed as Military Policemen dragged me from my pram, clutching a dummy. At Victoria Station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked “This is your enemy.” I searched every compartment, but he wasn’t on the train.”
Spike Milligan, Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall

Emil M. Cioran
“Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.”
Emil Cioran, All Gall is Divided: Aphorisms

“Book-burners try to destroy ideas that differ from their own. Reading does the opposite. It encourages doubt... reading releases you from the limits of yourself.”
John Carey

Keith Waterhouse
“Should not the Society of Indexers be know as Indexers, Society of, The?”
Keith Waterhouse

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