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• It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky.

  Muriel Spark

  Rain, Dirty, Bad Day

  Muriel Spark (2012). “Territorial Rights: A Novel”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Christian, Catholic, May

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• Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.

  Muriel Spark

  Mind, Fiction, Facts

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• The letters of famous people can be placed into two categories: there is the type of letter which becomes itself a valuable contribution to literature through its wit, style or wisdom; another kind is that whose main importance lies in the provision of a background to their author's life. Especially in the correspondence of great writers and poets, these two factors are very often combined.

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  Lying, Two, People

  Muriel Spark (2014). “The Essence of the Brontes: A Compilation with Essays”, p.31, Carcanet

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• If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work ... the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle placidly under the desk lamp ... The cat will settle down and be serene, with a serenity that passes all understanding.

  Muriel Spark

  Writing, Cat, Serenity

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• Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.

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  Smile, Communist, Fascists

  Muriel Spark (1998). “The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)”, p.55, New Directions Publishing

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• it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.

  Muriel Spark

  Girl, Men, Want

  Muriel Spark (1998). “The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)”, p.76, New Directions Publishing

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• I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.

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  Dream, Character, Wonder

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• Beware of men bearing flowers.

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  Flower, Men

  Muriel Spark (2011). “Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography”, p.111, New Directions Publishing

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• [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

  Being In Love, Long, Imagination

  Muriel Spark (2001). “Loitering with Intent”, p.60, New Directions Publishing

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• Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts.

  Muriel Spark

  Running, Debt

  Muriel Spark (2001). “All the Stories of Muriel Spark”, p.206, New Directions Publishing

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• It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.

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  Years, People, Remember

  Muriel Spark (2014). “Memento Mori”, p.23, New Directions Publishing

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• Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

  Muriel Spark

  Family, Children, Inspirational Life

  The Comforters (1957) ch. 6

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• Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities.

  Muriel Spark

  People, Mentality

  Muriel Spark (2001). “All the Stories of Muriel Spark”, p.147, New Directions Publishing

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• We often laughed at others in our house, and I picked up the craft of being polite while people were present and laughing later if there was anything to laugh about.

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  Funny, Humor, People

  Muriel Spark (2011). “Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography”, p.15, New Directions Publishing

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• 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.

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  Mean, Roots, Soul

  Muriel Spark (2015). “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”, p.29, Canongate Books

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• The words of the double-tongued are as if they were harmless, but they reach even to the inner part of the bowels. Praise be to the Lord, who distinguishes our cause and delivers us from the unjust and deceitful man.

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  Men, Deception, Unjust

  Muriel Spark (1995). “The novels of Muriel Spark”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first

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  Firsts, Goodness, Truth And Beauty

  Muriel Spark (2012). “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: A Novel”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• we have invented sex guilt to take our minds off the real thing.

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  Sex, Real, Mind

  Muriel Spark (1967). “The Mandelbaum Gate”

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• It isn't necessarily the great and famous beauty spots we fall in love with. As with people, so with places. Love is unforeseen, and we can all find ourselves affectionately attached to the minor and the less obvious.

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  Beauty, Travel, Falling In Love

  Muriel Spark (2014). “The Informed Air: Essays”, p.63, New Directions Publishing

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• Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

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  Death, Life Is, Surprise

  Muriel Spark (2014). “Memento Mori”, p.94, New Directions Publishing

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• No mind should submit their mind to another mind He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still -- that's my motto. I won't be brainwashed.

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  Mind, Opinion, Motto

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• New York, home of the vivisectors of the mind, and of the mentally vivisected still to be reassembled, of those who live intact, habitually wondering about their states of sanity, and home of those whose minds have been dead, bearing the scars of resurrection.

  Muriel Spark

  New York, Home, Mind

  FaceBook post by Muriel Spark from Jan 03, 2017

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• How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century.

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  Artist, Wonderful, Century

  Muriel Spark (2001). “Loitering with Intent”, p.26, New Directions Publishing

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• The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)

  Muriel Spark

  Girl, Morning, Mind

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