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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 have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth.
Muriel Spark
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.
Muriel Spark
Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.
Muriel Spark
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.
Muriel Spark
Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.
Muriel Spark
These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that.
Muriel Spark
Beware the ire of the calm.
Muriel Spark
Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.
Muriel Spark
Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts.
Muriel Spark
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.
Muriel Spark
it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.
Muriel Spark
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.
Muriel Spark
Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.
Muriel Spark
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
I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.
Muriel Spark
Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.
Muriel Spark
I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.
Muriel Spark
sooner or later I do what I want to do.
Muriel Spark
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.
Muriel Spark
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.
Muriel Spark