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If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.
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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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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Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.
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I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.
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It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky.
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It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
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sooner or later I do what I want to do.
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Beware of men bearing flowers.
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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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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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The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.
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Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.
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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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Beware the ire of the calm.
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Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first
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Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
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Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.
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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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Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.
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