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It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
Muriel Spark
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Muriel Spark
Age: 88 †
Born: 1918
Born: February 1
Died: 2006
Died: April 13
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Muriel Sarah Camberg
Dame Muriel Sarah Spark
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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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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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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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I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth.
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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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From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.
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Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.
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Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.
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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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The word education comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
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Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.
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