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14 quotes by Muriel Spark

Dame Muriel Spark, DBE, CLit, FRSE, FRSL (1 February 1918 – 13 April 2006) was an award-winning Scottish novelist. In 2008 The Times newspaper named Spark in its list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945", at No. 8.
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It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

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It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

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

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To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there... →

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One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

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Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

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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... →

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All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

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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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I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.

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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.

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Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.

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