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Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.
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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Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
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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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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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To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
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Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.
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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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The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.
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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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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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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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Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.
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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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From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.
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You look for one thing and you find another.
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Beware of men bearing flowers.
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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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Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts.
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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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Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities.
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