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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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To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
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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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You look for one thing and you find another.
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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 impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
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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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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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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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Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.
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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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Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first
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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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Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.
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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 have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth.
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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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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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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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Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.
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I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.
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