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Muriel Spark
Age: 88 †
Born: 1918
Born: February 1
Died: 2006
Died: April 13
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Scotland
Muriel Sarah Camberg
Dame Muriel Sarah Spark
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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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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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Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first
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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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Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts.
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I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.
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I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.
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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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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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Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.
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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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I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.
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Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
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I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.
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Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities.
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Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.
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sooner or later I do what I want to do.
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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 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 the ire of the calm.
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