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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 is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
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
It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
Muriel Spark
For those who like that sort of thing, said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, That is the sort of thing they like.
Muriel Spark
I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth.
Muriel Spark
Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.
Muriel Spark
The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.
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
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
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
I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.
Muriel Spark
Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts.
Muriel Spark
I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.
Muriel Spark
I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.
Muriel Spark
Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.
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
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
Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first
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
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.
Muriel Spark