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Muriel Spark quotes: Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life. Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
Muriel Spark quotes: It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree but smiles. It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree but smiles.
Muriel Spark quotes: Saving and pinching to get married, you're losing the best time of your life. Saving and pinching to get married, you're losing the best time of your life.
Muriel Spark quotes: Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left. Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.
Muriel Spark quotes: I'm old-fashioned beyond my years. I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.
Muriel Spark quotes: We have invented sex guilt to take our minds off the real thing. We have invented sex guilt to take our minds off the real thing.
Muriel Spark quotes: Never apologise, never explain. Never apologise, never explain.
Muriel Spark quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts. Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts.
Muriel Spark quotes: Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes ... Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes ...
Muriel Spark quotes: It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young. It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.
Muriel Spark quotes: These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that. 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 quotes: For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like. 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 quotes: Hildegard had long felt that sentimentality was a luxury she could not afford. Hildegard had long felt that sentimentality was a luxury she could not afford.
Muriel Spark quotes: I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams. I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.
Muriel Spark quotes: It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist. It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Muriel Spark quotes: You don't know what it's like trying to eat enough to live on and at the same time avoid fats and carbohydrates. You don't know what it's like trying to eat enough to live on and at the same time avoid fats and carbohydrates.
Muriel Spark quotes: I am putting old heads on your young shoulders,' Miss Brodie had told them at the time. I am putting old heads on your young shoulders,' Miss Brodie had told them at the time.
Muriel Spark quotes: I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends. I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.
Muriel Spark quotes: I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice. I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice.
Muriel Spark quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great
Muriel Spark quotes: Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
Muriel Spark quotes: Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first
Muriel Spark quotes: Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities ... Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities ...
Muriel Spark quotes: Flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority. Flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority.
Muriel Spark quotes: Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure. Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.
Muriel Spark quotes: A work of art is like living people. A work of art is like living people.
Muriel Spark quotes: Phrases like 'the team spirit' are always employed to cut across individualism, love and personal loyalties. Phrases like 'the team spirit' are always employed to cut across individualism, love and personal loyalties.
Muriel Spark quotes: Interviews can be stimulating. It depends on the intelligence of the interviewer. Interviews can be stimulating. It depends on the intelligence of the interviewer.
Muriel Spark quotes: Remember you must die. Remember you must die.
Muriel Spark quotes: [...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...] [...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]
Muriel Spark quotes: It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden. It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
Muriel Spark quotes: 4:15. Not 4 not 4:30 but 4:15. She thought to intimidate me with the use of quarter hours. 4:15. Not 4 not 4:30 but 4:15. She thought to intimidate me with the use of quarter hours.
Muriel Spark quotes: How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century, How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century,
Muriel Spark quotes: So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence. So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.
Muriel Spark quotes: One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom. One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.
Muriel Spark quotes: Sandwiches,' she said, 'like diamonds, are forever. Sandwiches,' she said, 'like diamonds, are forever.
Muriel Spark quotes: Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues. Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.
Muriel Spark quotes: I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control. I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.
Muriel Spark quotes: Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing. Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.
Muriel Spark quotes: Beware of men bearing flowers. Beware of men bearing flowers.
Muriel Spark quotes: From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers. From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.
Muriel Spark quotes: Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward. Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.
Muriel Spark quotes: It is a good thing to go to Paris for a few days if you have had a lot of trouble, and that is my advice to everyone except Parisians. It is a good thing to go to Paris for a few days if you have had a lot of trouble, and that is my advice to everyone except Parisians.
Muriel Spark quotes: To put it squarely, as I say in my memoir, the eternal triangle has come full circle. To put it squarely, as I say in my memoir, the eternal triangle has come full circle.
Muriel Spark quotes: How do you know when you're in love?' she said.'The traffic improves and the cost of living seems very low. How do you know when you're in love?' she said.
'The traffic improves and the cost of living seems very low.
Muriel Spark quotes: If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess. If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.
Muriel Spark quotes: I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't. I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.
Muriel Spark quotes: Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and dying as on a battlefield. Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and dying as on a battlefield.
Muriel Spark quotes: Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
Muriel Spark quotes: But you won't be able to pin her down on sex. Have you thought of politics? But you won't be able to pin her down on sex. Have you thought of politics?
Muriel Spark quotes: Beware the ire of the calm. Beware the ire of the calm.
Muriel Spark quotes: She did not know then that the price of allowing false opinions was the gradual loss of one's capacity for forming true ones. She did not know then that the price of allowing false opinions was the gradual loss of one's capacity for forming true ones.
Muriel Spark quotes: A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance. A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.
Muriel Spark quotes: To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
Muriel Spark quotes: The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure. The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.
Muriel Spark quotes: She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings. She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.
Muriel Spark quotes: Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness. Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.
Muriel Spark quotes: I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third. I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.
Muriel Spark quotes: Sooner or later I do what I want to do. Sooner or later I do what I want to do.
Muriel Spark quotes: Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.
Muriel Spark quotes: The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion. The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.
Muriel Spark quotes: It never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls. It never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.
Muriel Spark quotes: Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance. Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.
Muriel Spark quotes: At that time many of the men looked like Rupert Brooke, whose portrait still hung in everyone's imagination. At that time many of the men looked like Rupert Brooke, whose portrait still hung in everyone's imagination.
Muriel Spark quotes: I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth. I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth.
Muriel Spark quotes: I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work. I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.
Muriel Spark quotes: You look for one thing and you find another. You look for one thing and you find another.

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