Muriel Spark Quotes - Page 3

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• So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.

  Muriel Spark

  Lying, Night, Silence

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• sooner or later I do what I want to do.

  Muriel Spark

  Want, Assertiveness, Sooner Or Later

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• The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.

  Muriel Spark

  Men, Way, Certain

  'The Comforters' (1957) ch. 1

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• I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.

  Muriel Spark

  Christian, Firsts, Pope

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• 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

  Art, Philosophy, Science

  Muriel Spark (2015). “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”, p.20, Canongate Books

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• 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

  Girl, Lying, Drawing

  Muriel Spark (2014). “The Driver's Seat”, p.35, New Directions Publishing

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• People who quoted the Scriptures in criticism of others were terrible bores and usually they misapplied the text. One could prove anything against anyone from the Bible.

  Muriel Spark

  Bible, People, Criticism

  Muriel Spark (1967). “The Mandelbaum Gate”

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• Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.

  Muriel Spark

  Singing, Conclusion, Wells

  FaceBook post by Muriel Spark from Dec 07, 2016

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• Interviews can be stimulating. It depends on the intelligence of the interviewer.

  Muriel Spark

  Interviews, Interviewers, Depends

  Source: tobylitt.wordpress.com

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• Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.

  Muriel Spark

  Home, Looking Forward, Going Home

  Muriel Spark (2015). “Robinson”, p.63, Canongate Books

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• One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

  Muriel Spark

  Inspirational, Women, Memorable

  Muriel Spark (2012). “Doctors of Philosophy: A Play”, p.56, Open Road Media

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• There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce.

  Muriel Spark

  Divorce, Ideas, Upset

  Muriel Spark (2018). “A Good Comb: The Sayings of Muriel Spark”, p.17, New Directions Publishing

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• These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that.

  Muriel Spark

  Years, Important, Remember

  Muriel Spark (2015). “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”, p.8, Canongate Books

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• I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice.

  Muriel Spark

  Justice, Causes, Injustice

  Muriel Spark (2015). “Robinson”, p.85, Canongate Books

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• Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.

  Muriel Spark

  Virtue, Application

  Muriel Spark (2011). “Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography”, p.45, New Directions Publishing

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• Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great

  Muriel Spark

  Perseverance, Winning, Victory

  Muriel Spark (2014). “Memento Mori”, p.59, New Directions Publishing

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• No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be easily concealed in the undergrowth of the jungle, the old tribal authority will rapidly become undermined by the mounting influenece of modern skepticism.

  Muriel Spark

  Technology, Men, Medicine

  Muriel Spark (1960). “The Ballad of Peckham Rye”, p.142, New Directions Publishing

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• I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.

  Muriel Spark

  Friendship, Two, Trusted Friends

  Muriel Spark (2011). “Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography”, p.3, New Directions Publishing

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• Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

  Muriel Spark

  Girl, Giving, Age

  FaceBook post by Muriel Spark from Feb 01, 2017

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• I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.

  Muriel Spark

  Years, Old Fashioned

  Muriel Spark (2015). “Not to Disturb”, p.21, Canongate Books

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• 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

  Personality, Trying, Forget

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