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Muriel Spark Quotes

Muriel Spark quotes

English Novelist February 1, 1918 – April 13, 2006

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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 occur. You must then live it to the full. Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark quote: "Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of..."
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. Muriel Spark
Being in love is something like poetry. Certainly, you can analyze and expound its various senses and intentions, but there is always something left over, mysteriously hovering between music and meaning. Muriel Spark
[My novel] took up the sweetest part of my mind and the rarest part of my imagination; it was like being in love and better. All day long when I was busy [...], I had my unfinished novel personified almost as a secret companion and accomplice following me like a shadow wherever I went, whatever I did. Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark quote: "It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not..."
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist. Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark quote: "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
Muriel Spark quote: "All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an..."
All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life. Muriel Spark
If I had my life to live over again, I would form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is not another practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Muriel Spark
you're quite wrong there, Collie. One does miss sex. The body has a life of it's own. We do miss what we haven't had, you and I. Biologically. Ask Sigmund Freud. It is revealed in dreams. The absent touch of warm limbs at night, the absent Muriel Spark
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
Muriel Spark quote: "When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that..."
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. Muriel Spark
It was a gusty day, and from the windows of Caroline's top-floor flat, only the sky was visible with its little hurrying clouds. It was a day when being indoors was meaningful, wasting an afternoon in superior confidences with a friend before the two-barred electric heater. Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark quote: "It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but..."
It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles. Muriel Spark
Ever since her conversion [Barbara] had met sophisticated women who, on the subject of Catholicism, sneered like French village atheists, and expected to be excused from normal good manners, let alone intelligence, on this one subject. Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark quote: "it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they..."
...it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls. Muriel Spark

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