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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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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'm old-fashioned beyond my years.
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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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Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.
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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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Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.
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Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.
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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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sooner or later I do what I want to do.
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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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Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first
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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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Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts.
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Beware of men bearing flowers.
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Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.
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I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.
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Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities.
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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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