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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.»
«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.»
«One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.»
Author: Muriel Spark | About: Boredom | Keywords: psychiatrist
«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, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.»
Author: Muriel Spark | About: Education | Keywords: intrusion, intrusions, leading, pupil
«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.»
«Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life»
Author: Muriel Spark | Keywords: coping, coping with
«It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.»
Author: Muriel Spark | About: Agreement, Smile | Keywords: disagree, persuade
«Godfrey's wife, Charmian, sat with her eyes closed, attempting to put her thoughts into alphabetical order, which Godfrey had told her was better than no order at all since she now had grasp of neither logic nor chronology»
«It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.»
Author: Muriel Spark
«When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.»
Author: Muriel Spark | About: Immortality, Life | Keywords: decline