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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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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.
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Her parents had searched through the past, consulted psychiatrists, took every moment to bits. In no way could she be explained.
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I have a great desire to make people smile — not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth.
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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.
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Ben was an intellectual, and intellectuals, say what you like, seemed to last longer than anyone else.
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For those who like that sort of thing... that is the sort of thing they like.
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It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
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You are writing to a friend. Write privately, not publicly, without fear or timidity, right to the end of the letter, as if it was never going to be published... Don't rehearse too much, the story will develop as you go along... Remember not to think of the reading public. It will put you off.
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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.
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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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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
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Muriel Spark
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Born:
February 1, 1918
Died:
April 13, 2006
(aged 88)
Bio:
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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