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Muriel Spark
Age: 88 †
Born: 1918
Born: February 1
Died: 2006
Died: April 13
Biographer
Editor
Literary Critic
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Edinburgh
Scotland
Muriel Sarah Camberg
Dame Muriel Sarah Spark
Goodness
Beauty
Truth
Firsts
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Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.
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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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You look for one thing and you find another.
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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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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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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.
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Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.
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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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The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.
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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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Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities.
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sooner or later I do what I want to do.
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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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I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.
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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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Beware of men bearing flowers.
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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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Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.
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