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Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts.
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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I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.
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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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It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
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Beware of men bearing flowers.
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It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
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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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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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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 am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.
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Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.
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Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.
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It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
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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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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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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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Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
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Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.
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Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.
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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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