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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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Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
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Beware the ire of the calm.
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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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I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.
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Beware of men bearing flowers.
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sooner or later I do what I want to do.
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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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Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts.
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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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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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Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.
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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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The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.
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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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I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.
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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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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 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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Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.
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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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