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Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
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'm old-fashioned beyond my years.
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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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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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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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I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth.
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Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities.
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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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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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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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The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.
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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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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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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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Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.
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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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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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I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.
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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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