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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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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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Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.
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Beware of men bearing flowers.
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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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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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Beware the ire of the calm.
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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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To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
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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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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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Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.
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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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Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
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Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.
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Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities.
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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 often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.
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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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Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.
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You look for one thing and you find another.
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