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I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control. - Muriel Spark Quotes

I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.

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I am putting old heads on your young shoulders...all my pupils are the creme de la creme. - Muriel Spark Quotes

I am putting old heads on your young shoulders...all my pupils are the creme de la creme.

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. - Muriel Spark Quotes

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

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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 Quotes

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

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Godfrey's wife, Charmian, sat with her eyes closed, attempting to put her thoughts into alphabetical order, which Godfrey had told her was better than no order at all since she now had grasp of neither logic nor chronology - Muriel Spark Quotes

Godfrey's wife, Charmian, sat with her eyes closed, attempting to put her thoughts into alphabetical order, which Godfrey had told her was better than no order at all since she now had grasp of neither logic nor chronology

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 Quotes

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.

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 Quotes

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.

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. - Muriel Spark Quotes

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

English Novelist

If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. 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. You might as well live on the whites of eggs. - Muriel Spark Quotes

If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. 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. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.

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It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles. - Muriel Spark Quotes

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

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