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Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

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Muriel Spark
Age: 88 †
Born: 1918
Born: February 1
Died: 2006
Died: April 13
Biographer
Editor
Literary Critic
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Muriel Sarah Camberg
Dame Muriel Sarah Spark
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We often laughed at others in our house, and I picked up the craft of being polite while people were present and laughing later if there was anything to laugh about.
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sooner or later I do what I want to do.
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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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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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Beware of men bearing flowers.
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Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.
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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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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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Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first
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There was altogether too much candor in married life it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce.
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It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
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From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.
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Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.
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Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities.
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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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The word education comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
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I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.
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I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.
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Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.
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Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.
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