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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.
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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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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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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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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Beware of men bearing flowers.
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Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.
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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 am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.
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Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.
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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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Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first
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sooner or later I do what I want to do.
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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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The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.
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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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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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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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Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.
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