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There cannot be many people who can go through life without regretting sooner or later a lack of knowledge about horses. — Muriel Wace

If there is one thing I detest, it's when people transform their powerlessness or alienation into a creed. — Muriel Barbery

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life. — Muriel Spark

Saving and pinching to get married, you're losing the best time of your life. — Muriel Spark

Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying. — Muriel Barbery

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left. — Muriel Spark

It's obvious that five days is just enough to give one a false impression of any country. — Muriel Lester

True novelty is that which does not grow old, despite the passage of time. — Muriel Barbery

I'll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world. - Paloma — Muriel Barbery

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open. — Muriel Rukeyser

Poet' had always sounded like a profession to me, or a talent. But the dead American [Muriel Rukeyser, The Life of Poetry] made it sound like a faith. — Ariel Gore

If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well. — Muriel Barbery

Never apologise, never explain. — Muriel Spark

In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song. — Muriel Barbery

It is always reassuring to be disabused of one's own paranoia. — Muriel Barbery

When I am dead, even then,
I will still love you, I will wait in these poems,
When I am dead, even then
I am still listening to you. — Muriel Rukeyser

Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes ... — Muriel Spark

I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot — Muriel Rukeyser

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

You create opportunities by performing, not complaining — Muriel Siebert

When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black. — Muriel Barbery

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language. — Muriel Barbery

I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery, the offering, and the pride. — Muriel Rukeyser

I learned that I had been brought up as a protected, blindfolded daughter. — Muriel Rukeyser

Hildegard had long felt that sentimentality was a luxury she could not afford. — Muriel Spark

I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams. — Muriel Spark

That is the way a summer rain can take hold in you- like a new heart, beating in time with another's. — Muriel Barbery

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

The universe is made up of stories, not atoms. — Muriel Rukeyser

Exchange is creation. — Muriel Rukeyser

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

Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great — Muriel Spark

How insensitive, inartistic, unscientific, and ungracious it is to take anything for granted! — Muriel Lester

Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities ... — Muriel Spark

The universe is made of stories, not atoms. — Muriel Rukeyser

Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure. — Muriel Spark

Ici le fashion police. How can I enhance your fabulousness — Muriel Zagha

The first casualty in every war is truth. — Muriel Lester

Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. — Muriel Rukeyser

Remember you must die. — Muriel Spark

[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...] — Muriel Spark

That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people. - The Elegance of the Hedgehog — Muriel Barbery

We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves. — Muriel Barbery

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. — Muriel Rukeyser

I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third. — Muriel Spark

Beware the ire of the calm. — Muriel Spark

A child who is happy on his pony's back has something which will be to him a glorious memory that the years cannot dim ... — Muriel Wace

Maybe you won't rock a cradle, Muriel. Some women seem to prefer to rock the boat. — Helen Frost

What is the purpose of intelligence if it is not to serve others? — Muriel Barbery

How distressing to stumble on a dominant social habitus, just when one was convinced of one's own uniqueness in the matter! — Muriel Barbery

God's gifts are often difficult to appreciate; nevertheless they are gifts. — Muriel Maufroy

People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time. — Muriel Barbery

I will try to be non-violent
one more day
this morning, waking the world away
in the violent day. — Muriel Rukeyser

I had a brief glimpse of a frail, mature man carrying a ravaged child in his arms... — Muriel Barbery

Papa is just a kid who's playing the dead serious grown-up. — Muriel Barbery

since destiny always rings three times... — Muriel Barbery

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality. — Muriel Rukeyser

Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul. — Muriel Barbery

For in order for consciousness to be aroused, it must have a name. However, — Muriel Barbery

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

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. — Muriel Spark

When we disappear, it is the others who die for us — Muriel Barbery

I understood that I was suffering because I couldn't make anyone else around me feel better. — Muriel Barbery

A victor's peace is usually vindictive and stirs up a passion for revenge a generation or so later. — Muriel Lester

Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. — Muriel Spark

Birch trees
Teach me that I am nothing
And that I am deserving of life — Muriel Barbery

Life always rewards hard work. — Muriel Gill

Only one man lived who could understand Gibbs's papers. That was Maxwell, and now he is dead. — Muriel Rukeyser

I don't give a damn about where I happen to be, provided nothing stops me from going into my mind. — Muriel Barbery

I'm afraid to go into myself and see what's going on in there. — Muriel Barbery

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

At that time many of the men looked like Rupert Brooke, whose portrait still hung in everyone's imagination. — Muriel Spark

One writes in order to feel ... — Muriel Rukeyser

A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world. — Muriel Rukeyser

If you change the way you crunch into something, it is like trying something new. — Muriel Barbery

Their faces said : This is your home; and I .
I never come home, I never go away.
And they all answered : Stay. — Muriel Rukeyser

Sandwiches,' she said, 'like diamonds, are forever. — Muriel Spark

Local images have one kind of reality. 'U.S. 1' will, I hope, have that kind and another, too. Poetry can extend the document. — Muriel Rukeyser

So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence. — Muriel Spark

It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden. — Muriel Spark

How do you know when you're in love?' she said.
'The traffic improves and the cost of living seems very low. — Muriel Spark

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

Art is emotion without desire. — Muriel Barbery

I also love Australian movies. I love Muriel's Wedding - I've seen in six times. Baz Luhrmann's best movie is strictly ballroom ... without question. — Ridley Scott

In any event, it's done, said Papa-which are the words of a coward to the power of ten. — Muriel Barbery

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life. — Muriel Spark

When you don't know how to build the present, you tell — Muriel Barbery

Conclusion: better to be a thinking monk than a postmodern
thinker. — Muriel Barbery

Do you know that it is in your company that I have had my finest thoughts? — Muriel Barbery

We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be. — Muriel Barbery

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

The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry. — Muriel Rukeyser

The universe is not made of atoms; it's made of stories. — Muriel Rukeyser

But you won't be able to pin her down on sex. Have you thought of politics? — Muriel Spark

Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge. — Muriel Barbery

When you tell your dreams you gotta tell people you trust, 'cause sometimes they'll snatch your dream right away from you. — Michelle Muriel

Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness — Muriel Rukeyser

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance. — Muriel Spark

I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't. — Muriel Spark

Shocked to realize how much vitality is required simply to support our primitive requirements, we wonder, bewildered, where Art fits in. — Muriel Barbery