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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.

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Muriel Spark
Age: 88 †
Born: 1918
Born: February 1
Died: 2006
Died: April 13
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Muriel Sarah Camberg
Dame Muriel Sarah Spark
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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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it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.
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I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.
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Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts.
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Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.
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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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Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.
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Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.
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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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Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.
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Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first
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You look for one thing and you find another.
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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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sooner or later I do what I want to do.
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