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Muriel Spark Quotes

Muriel Spark quotes

English Novelist February 1, 1918 – April 13, 2006

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Muriel Spark quote: "For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in..."
For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like. Muriel Spark
It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up. Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark quote: "It is difficult for people of advanced years to start..."
It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young. Muriel Spark
The word 'education' comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. 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, from the Latin root prefix in meaning in and the stem trudo, I thrust. Muriel Spark
For concentration you need a cat...And the tranquility of the cat will gradually come to affect you, sitting there at your desk, so that all the excitable qualities that impede your concentration compose themselves and give you back the self-command it has lost. You need not watch the cat all the time. Its presence is enough. Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark quote: "I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams."
I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams. Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark quote: "I never trust the airlines from those countries where the..."
I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't. Muriel Spark
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. Muriel Spark
The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story. Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark quote: "It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither..."
It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden. Muriel Spark
The Brodie set did not for a moment doubt that she would prevail. As soon expect Julius Caesar to apply for a job at a crank school as Miss Brodie. She would never resign. If the authorities wanted to get rid of her she would have to be assassinated. Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark quote: "I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had..."
I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control. Muriel Spark
Her lips are slightly parted: she, whose lips are usually pressed together with the daily disapprovals of the accountants' office where she has worked continually, except for the months of illness, since she was 18, that is to say, for 16 years and some months. Her lips, when she does not speak or eat, are normally pressed together like the ruled line of a balance sheet, marked straight with her old-fashioned lipstick, a final and judjing mouth, a precision instrument. Muriel Spark
The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark quote: "To me education is a leading out of what is already there in..."
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. Muriel Spark

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