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Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.
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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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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Beware of men bearing flowers.
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Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.
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Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.
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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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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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I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.
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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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It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
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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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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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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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I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.
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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 the ire of the calm.
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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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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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Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities.
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One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.
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Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
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