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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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Two
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Hoarder
Documents
Trusted
Friendship

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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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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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Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.
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Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
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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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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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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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I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth.
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No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be easily concealed in the undergrowth of the jungle, the old tribal authority will rapidly become undermined by the mounting influenece of modern skepticism.
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Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.
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The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.
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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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Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.
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Beware the ire of the calm.
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Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.
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I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.
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Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.
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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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It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
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