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Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.
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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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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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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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 see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.
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Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.
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Beware of men bearing flowers.
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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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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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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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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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Beware the ire of the calm.
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Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities.
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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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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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Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
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sooner or later I do what I want to do.
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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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