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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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Muriel Spark
Age: 88 †
Born: 1918
Born: February 1
Died: 2006
Died: April 13
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Edinburgh
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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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I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.
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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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sooner or later I do what I want to do.
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