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Beware of men bearing flowers.
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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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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sooner or later I do what I want to do.
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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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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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It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
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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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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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Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
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I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.
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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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It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
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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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I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.
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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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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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I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth.
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Beware the ire of the calm.
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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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Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.
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