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English Novelist February 1, 1918 – April 13, 2006

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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
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
...try as i do, i can't recall her surname. Indeed, her very abstractedness and insubstantial personality seemed to say 'forget me'; she seemed to live in parenthesis;... Muriel Spark
Oh" she says "the inconceivable sorrow of it, those chairs piled up at night when you're sitting in a caf. The last one left". Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark quote: "Sex is all righ? he says"
Sex is all righ? he says Muriel Spark

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