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Muriel Spark
English
Novelist
About the author
I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.
Muriel Spark,
English
Novelist
#Thought
#Mother
#Control
#Pity
#Birth control
I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.
Muriel Spark,
English
Novelist
#First
#Christian
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,
English
Novelist
#Time
#Life
#May
#Girls
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
Muriel Spark,
English
Novelist
#Life
#Children
#Parents
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Muriel Spark,
English
Novelist
#Love
#Sin
One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.
Muriel Spark,
English
Novelist
#Boredom
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
Muriel Spark,
English
Novelist
#Time
#Life
#May
I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.
Muriel Spark,
English
Novelist
#Work
#Reason
#Sound
#Voice
#Enjoyment
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,
English
Novelist
#May
#Christian
It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
Muriel Spark,
English
Novelist
#Man
#Smiles
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Muriel Spark,
English
Novelist
#Life
#Old
#First
#Age
#Immortality
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,
English
Novelist
#Life
#Age
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,
English
Novelist
#Life
#Art
#Science
#First
#Religion
#Order
#Importance
#Philosophy
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,
English
Novelist
#Leading
#Education
#Soul