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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and dying as on a battlefield.
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It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays a 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.
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Born:
February 1, 1918
Died:
April 13, 2006
(aged 88)
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Dame Muriel Sarah Spark, CLit was a Scottish novelist. In 2008, the Times newspaper named Spark as No. 8 in its list of 'the 50 greatest British writers since 1945'.
Known for:
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)
The Driver's Seat (1970)
The Girls of Slender Means (1963)
Memento Mori (1959)
Loitering with Intent (1981)
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