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Muriel Spark Inspirational Quotes (41)

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Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.
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Being in love is something like poetry. Certainly, you can analyze and expound its various senses and intentions, but there is always something left over, mysteriously hovering between music and meaning.
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I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.
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To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
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Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.
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Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.
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The words of the double-tongued are as if they were harmless, but they reach even to the inner part of the bowels. Praise be to the Lord, who distinguishes our cause and delivers us from the unjust and deceitful man.
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sooner or later I do what I want to do.
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Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.
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Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.
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These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that.
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It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
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No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be easily concealed in the undergrowth of the jungle, the old tribal authority will rapidly become undermined by the mounting influenece of modern skepticism.
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I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.
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I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.
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One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.
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The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.
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From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.
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Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.
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Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first
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It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
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Beware of men bearing flowers.
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For those who like that sort of thing, said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, That is the sort of thing they like.
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We often laughed at others in our house, and I picked up the craft of being polite while people were present and laughing later if there was anything to laugh about.
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