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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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Novelist
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Muriel Sarah Camberg
Dame Muriel Sarah Spark
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Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
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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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Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities.
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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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Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.
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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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Beware of men bearing flowers.
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Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.
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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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I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.
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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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Beware the ire of the calm.
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Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts.
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Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.
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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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You look for one thing and you find another.
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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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Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first
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