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Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.

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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
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Writer
Edinburgh
Scotland
Muriel Sarah Camberg
Dame Muriel Sarah Spark
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Contradictions
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Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.
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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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It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
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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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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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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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Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.
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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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It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
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Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities.
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I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.
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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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I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.
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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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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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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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