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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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Literary Critic
Novelist
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Poet
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Muriel Sarah Camberg
Dame Muriel Sarah Spark
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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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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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Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.
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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 often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.
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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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Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.
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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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I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.
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Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.
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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 is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
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Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.
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Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
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Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first
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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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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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