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One's prime is elusive. You li...

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 80 quotes

I see no reason to keep silent...

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

Muriel Spark 80 quotes

If you're going to do a thing,...

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 80 quotes

The sacrifice of pleasures is ...

The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.

Muriel Spark 80 quotes

If I had my life over again I ...

If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. No other practice so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one -surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.

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Parents learn a lot from their...

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

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It is one of the secrets of Na...

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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Allow me, in conclusion, to co...

Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.

Muriel Spark 80 quotes

These years are still the year...

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 80 quotes

Art and religion first; then p...

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 80 quotes

The sparkle and morning-freshn...

The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)

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Beware the ire of the calm....

Beware the ire of the calm.

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it never really occurred to he...

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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everything happens to an artis...

everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.

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sooner or later I do what I wa...

sooner or later I do what I want to do.

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People who quoted the Scriptur...

People who quoted the Scriptures in criticism of others were terrible bores and usually they misapplied the text. One could prove anything against anyone from the Bible.

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Contradictions in human charac...

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

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Let us run up debts. One is no...

Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts.

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Fiction to me is a kind of par...

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 80 quotes

I never trust the airlines fro...

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

Muriel Spark 80 quotes

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