Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
About Muriel Spark
Dame Muriel Sarah Sparkwas a Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist.
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Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
Scottish novelist and writer (1918-2006)
All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.
Scottish novelist and writer (1918-2006)
I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.
Scottish novelist and writer (1918-2006)
I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.
Scottish novelist and writer (1918-2006)
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.
Scottish novelist and writer (1918-2006)
One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.
Scottish novelist and writer (1918-2006)
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.
Scottish novelist and writer (1918-2006)
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Scottish novelist and writer (1918-2006)
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Scottish novelist and writer (1918-2006)
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that’s their order of importance.
Scottish novelist and writer (1918-2006)
I wouldn’t take the Pope too seriously. He’s a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.
Scottish novelist and writer (1918-2006)
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.
Scottish novelist and writer (1918-2006)
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
Scottish novelist and writer (1918-2006)
It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
Scottish novelist and writer (1918-2006)