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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
Screenwriter
Writer
Edinburgh
Scotland
Muriel Sarah Camberg
Dame Muriel Sarah Spark
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Beware of men bearing flowers.
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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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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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Beware the ire of the calm.
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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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You look for one thing and you find another.
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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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I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.
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Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first
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Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.
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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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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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Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.
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Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts.
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It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
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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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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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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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