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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
Screenwriter
Writer
Edinburgh
Scotland
Muriel Sarah Camberg
Dame Muriel Sarah Spark
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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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It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
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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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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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To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
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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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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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Beware of men bearing flowers.
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Beware the ire of the calm.
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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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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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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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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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It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
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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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I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.
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I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.
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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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